Quotes About Ivory Coast

From Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela to Equatorial Guinea and the Ivory Coast, China dangles lavish, low-interest loans and sophisticated weapons systems as bait. It then uses its 'weapons of mass construction,' a huge army of engineers and labourers, to build everything from roads and dams to parliament buildings and palaces.

Didier Drogba has been an inspiration to all of us in the Ivory Coast national team. He is a great motivator for all of us - and some of the talks he gives are like a president trying to motivate his country. It is not just what he does on the field - but also all he does for all of our people off the field.

I was born in a tiny place in Ivory Coast, so being a protagonist in this life is a dream.

Now I want to play with the Ivory Coast. It has been rewarding, firstly because I am proud to play for my country, then because the Ivorian selection has quality players and has always been a reservoir of talent.

In Ivory Coast it's very hard to have normal shoes, so just imagine football boots - they were considered a true luxury.

Ivory Coast, even though I told them no at first, they still had the belief in me and still wanted me because they knew what I could do for the team.

There is great respect for Liverpool in the Ivory Coast.

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.

Back in the days, being able to join the Jean-Marc Guillou academy was one of the best things that could happen to a youngster from Ivory Coast. There were thousands of kids who wanted to join that school so it was a great feeling for me.

The coast of what is now Nigeria became known as the slave coast, just as the coast of neighboring Ghana to the west was called the gold coast and that west of Ghana was (and still is) called the ivory coast.

One thing I wanted to do from when I was young was buy my parents a house. I have done that in Ivory Coast.