Quotes from Emmanuel Adebayor

When you score 30 goals in a season, you can expect that the following year there will be a little bit more pressure and attention on you.

As a striker sometimes you miss, and sometimes you score.

For me, apart from having my baby, the best thing is whenever I score my next goal.

Scoring goals is what I do best in my career.

I'm from Africa, and I have to give something back to my community. You all know that I've been doing a lot of charity stuff without knocking at any door. I'm taking my own wages to do it, and I will keep doing it until the end of my career.

There is only so much abuse a man can take until he reaches breaking point.

All the Arsenal fans boo me, and when I look back, I understand where everything went wrong, but there are certain things in life you cannot come back to anymore.

I want to win the Champions League, and I don't care about personal success.

As a striker, most of the time you have three chances.

Stephen Ireland is one of the most talented players I have seen, and Nigel de Jong is doing really well. He fights for his team all over the pitch, and he has a lot of character.

If I'm on the pitch, and I score, and I'm not going to celebrate, I would rather tell the manager I'm not going to play because what is the point of scoring goals and not celebrating?

I'm always motivated when I go out on the pitch.

You can insult me - you can judge me on the football pitch - that's normal. But don't touch my family. Don't touch my parents. I love them more than everything on this earth.

We all play football to get money.

I'm not really happy with my football career, but I can't complain about it, either.

It's always a pleasure to have a manager give you compliments.

In 2002, I went to play the Afcon in Mali, and I had the huge privilege to swap my shirt with Marc-Vivien Foe. May his soul rest in peace.

I plan with the BBC African Player of the Year award to become an agent of hope and positive change in the lives of the millions of African youths who have lost hope and are deprived.

Everything I do in life I put in the hands of God, my creator.

When you are playing in front of your own crowd, you want them to support you.

My father worked in currency exchange, and my mother is a businesswoman.

You want to play against the best defenders and the best teams. You want to test yourself.

I have a bad reputation in England, and I don't know why. Maybe it's something that has just followed me. But one thing I always say is that 90% of the people I've played with would say I'm an amazing guy, a great teammate. Other people, those who work on the gate at every stadium I've played at, will tell you I am a humble guy and a nice person.

Sometimes you have to be dirty to win some games.