Quotes from Reiss Nelson

Where I come from, the estates are not so nice. It is a bit gritty.

Alex Iwobi has told me to stay grounded. I've got a really good family that helps me as well.

For me, it's just about playing - getting the game time you need to prove to everyone you can play at that high level.

It was different coming from Hale End to London Colney. The coaching is so much different and the environment - you've got loads of first team players and world-class players there.

I think that's good for a coach to have two sides: the jokey side and the fiery side.

I need to just keep training hard and getting all the information from the coaches and the players.

I just look ahead to the next match. I just want to keep going and not look too far ahead.

I've got a lot of time and respect for Arsene, and I think he developed me into a good young man as well, and I'm very thankful for that.

Raheem Sterling is a role model to a lot of young lads coming through.

On my estate, there are older guys and there are dangerous things happening. But I had my ball with me and that made me feel safe. That's where I developed my strength, mentality and ruthlessness.

If I wasn't aiming to break into the Arsenal first team, that wouldn't be the correct mindset.

We would go to the football pitch near my estate and play until it was dark.

I was 17 when Arsene Wenger gave me my first Premier League start for Arsenal against Southampton and I was very immature when I was playing.

When Thierry Henry was U19 coach at Arsenal he gave me a lot of advice. His main thing was staying grounded.

When you play with the older people it helps you mentally, because they're bigger and stronger than you. You have to live up to that.

A loan wasn't always my first option, but when I heard the Bundesliga and Hoffenheim was an option for me and working with the manager there, it was something I wanted to do.

Alex Iwobi has really helped me.

Arsenal is my main goal.

In Heidelberg, in Hoffenheim, there's not much going on. I am so used to being around my London estate, so when I am here I am kind of lost in a different environment, a different area.

I want to be an Arsenal legend.

Thierry is an Arsenal legend and I had an opportunity to spend time with him when he was a coach at the academy.

I just need to stay loyal to God and anything can happen.

The main thing for me is getting in the starting eleven and making an impact whenever I can come on.

That's the thing with football: you have some good games, you have some bad games but the main thing is that you go back, you recap and next week you're ready to fight again. That's the main thing.