Quotes from Dominic Calvert-Lewin

I always believe you will end up where you are meant to be.

I'm a big admirer of Raheem and I think that he's a big role model for people like myself, young black people and young people as a whole.

I just have to keep scoring goals.

With such a big number comes a great responsibility so I have to accept that on my shoulders and live with what comes with it, good and bad. It is not a burden, it is just part and parcel of being a No.9.

There's a difference between setting goals and trying to live in the future before it even happens.

It is a dream come true to wear the No 9 shirt.

I am a proud Englishman and proud every time I pull on the England shirt.

I like to think I have shown I am ready to live up to the expectations of being Everton's number nine.

I have to back myself and think if I'm big enough to be picked by Everton and exposed in that situation, then I'm old enough to take whatever comes with it. That's the way I kind of see it.

I always knew to warrant a call-up for my country, it was important that I was doing my job, and that is scoring goals.

I have been playing football since I was eight so I know how to play football. But no-one can really prepare you for the mental side of things and having 40,000 fans saying you're not a good player or you don't belong.

To have a manager who has worked with top players, top strikers, who have played in my position, it's always nice to know that when he is giving me information, he's coached these players before so it's important I take it on board.

I'm competing with myself every day in training to try and better myself, and going into games to try and score goals.

I can't really affect anything else other than when I'm on the pitch, so I try and concentrate on that.

As a young centre-forward, if I'm to look along the line of top centre-forwards, I would look at Robert Lewandowski and study his game and see what positions he gets in, because I feel he's got similar attributes to what I have.

Carlo has definitely had a positive influence on me.

The Premier League is a competitive league where strikers can be brought in for x amount of pounds and it might block your pathway as a young player. To go abroad, if it gives you the opportunity to play at the highest level in that country then I think it's a no-brainer.

The Premier League is the top league in the world. It's definitely toughened me up and mentally made me into the person I am now.

It's a dream of mine to play in the Premier League and to make my debut.

It's very difficult, but if I'm talking from my personal view and what I do as a job, which is playing football, how the Premier League and football handles racism should be with great severity because there's no place for it in the world.

I enjoy being a presence in the box.

My target from a young boy is to try and reach as far as possible and achieve as much as I possibly can.

You can score goals at youth level but men's football teaches you things. It teaches you real football and you realise that this game is sink or swim.

As footballers we are in a really privileged position so it's good to give back to the community.