Quotes from Harry Kane

Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing.

You have to choose whether to take the money or follow your own ambitions, playing in the best league in the world and winning titles.

I'd love to be captain of Tottenham and hopefully England as well.

Tom Brady is a big inspiration and a big idol of mine.

When people think Arsenal had a bad season and we've had a good one, yet they still finish above us, it hurts.

When I was growing up, Keane and Sheringham were my idols, and they wore 10. So it was always my dream to wear it.

Whenever a new manager comes in you want to impress him.

It's harder to be angry at home when we lose. When it was just me and the missus, she didn't mind. She'd take the wrath of the loss! But it's harder when there's a little baby now.

I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.

I am quite a calm player. I do have a go at players and refs in the heat of the moment, but I never throw my toys out of the pram.

I am confident in my ability, as I always have been, and that I will be capable of maintaining my form, if not improving, year in, year out.

'Harry Brown' is good - and I love 'The Italian Job.'

It isn't hard to practise finishing. You can do it on your own: just take a couple of touches and shoot at goal. You can do it with whatever equipment you have.

I'm a very patriotic England fan, actually. I always wore my heart on my sleeve.

I'm at my most comfortable out on the pitch when I'm in front of goal with the ball at my feet. It's about being used to certain situations, and with time, you will find, chances don't get snatched at.

It depends on how my football career goes, but when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game, it is something I would like to do.

Maybe when I was younger, people didn't always believe in me; they didn't think I would make it to where I am now.

I think self-belief is a massive thing in football. If you don't believe in yourself, not many others will. Work hard and believe in yourself, and I think you'll go as far as your body will take you.

It is about doing everything you can so your body can perform at the highest level.

I play my best football when I'm calm mentally.

Some people are motivated by money - I'm not one of them.

I always back myself as a finisher, but I always practise it as well. Every type of finish: left foot, right foot, headers, penalties, free kicks.

You can run in behind someone - one v. one, you're better - so I'm always trying to work on my speed. That's probably one aspect I've worked on the hardest as a player. I want to always improve on everything in my game, but that's one area I really work on.

I think I had set-backs, but I still always had that belief that I was going to play for Tottenham Hotspur. Even when I went out on loan to clubs, it was always to come back and be a Spurs player.