I am grateful to God for that because people can still identify me with something in Germany.

I used to say that I got to Germany as a boy but I left as a man.

So, we know that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. I still believe that is the good thing about Nigerian players. We can always spring up so many surprises.

I have got my pride to defend.

After playing in England, going to a place where you have 40, 50 people at the stadium was no fun.

Sometimes money is not everything.

I felt like a prisoner. In Qatar, you need a sponsor to get a work permit and you cannot leave the country unless you have an exit permit from your sponsor.

I wanted to play in the Premier League and Bolton offered me that opportunity at that time and that was why I signed for Bolton.

Bolton was one of the relegation candidates when I got there but we took the club to another level and even had the opportunity to play for the first time in the Europa League.

I think it is also the most demanding league; the pace of the game in the EPL is something else and rightly for me is maybe the best league in the world.

It's a team sport but every player's ego will kick in at a certain point.

I'd be lying if I said I never had any issues with players but at some point you have to stamp your authority because if you're good at taking free-kicks, for example, they should let you take them.

It would be in my interest to have great players around me because, if you're playing with good players, it makes your job a lot easier.

Football has an important place in Russia.

I'm friends with Igor Yanovsky from when we played together at PSG and he suggested a few Russian dishes to me. I really love borsch!

I'd say the player whose style most resembles mine would be Neymar. That's because I played with a sense of joy and you can see that he feels the same and really enjoys his own play. He doesn't play for himself or just to entertain the fans - he plays for his team. He uses his quality and skill for the good of the team.

Ronaldo is a fantastic player, one of the best I've ever seen, but he's been a bit unfortunate to be of the same generation as Messi. Consequently, they have to share the limelight.

It's not easy to break into an Arsenal team from youth.

Winning the Carling Cup would be the ultimate for me.

I should have got a medal at Neunkirchen, my first club in Germany.

When I was in Paris I was at a big club in a major city, but nobody really cared about each other. It didn't have that family feeling, I didn't see any team spirit.

I've wanted to be a part of the Premiership for some time, to experience the excitement and the atmosphere.

People wonder why I chose to come to Bolton. There's a different pressure and mentality here to PSG, where we were expected to challenge at the top every year, but look at our squad - quality throughout.

Traditionally it's been difficult for Africans to play over here, mainly because the African calendar is very different to that in Europe. Most of the coaches over here can't accept that we have to go back home to play at the Nations' Cup for a month while the season is still on over here. That made people reluctant to sign Africans.

My Nigerian colleagues gave me a good impression of the Premiership and I am glad to be here.

I experienced life in a struggling team at Eintracht Frankfurt, but I was still young then and didn't understand what it meant to be relegated.

My advantage is my skill so I have to use it.

Nobody likes it when people dribble past them, me included, but I can't tackle.

For me, there is no limit to success.

You have every right to set yourselves targets and whether you achieve it or not is entirely a different matter but at least you have to be ambitious and set yourself challenging goals.

When you don't spend or invest in the future, you can't always get away with it.

You can't play football without having a good training pitch.

I've invested in pitches and continue to run clinics to help encourage others to do the same.

Everybody wants to play in the Premiership and I like a big challenge.

I am an instance of what is possible with a lot of hard work.

If you work hard, dedicated to what you are doing, and you are disciplined, you will succeed in the end.

I came out of a background of want, but today I give glory to God.

I don't walk around with a bible or preach to people and I don't want to disturb my team-mates on match days by praying in the dressing room, so I do that at the hotel before I leave. I respect their way of life and do not insist that my way is best. I have not tried to convert anybody.

In football, everything can change.

It is always nice to play for the bigger teams, contesting titles and Champions League rather than relegation.

I believe an African team will one day win the World Cup, and it could even be in Brazil.

My first World Cup appearance remains fresh in my memory and what made it incredible was that I had made my first appearance for Nigeria just a year before.

Sometimes having the best players is not enough to win the Champions League.

For me racism doesn't belong to football and it doesn't belong in our society any more.

It is a very physical league but if I can play in the Premiership then I won't have any problems playing in the Championship.

I don't have to think about other players. I'm more concerned with my own game and how I can influence things on the field with my ability.

To be honest, I can live anywhere.

The life was good in Qatar but I did not enjoy the football. For me, 12 months was enough. The standard was low, but not that low. It was OK but the ambition was not there from the players. It was like playing for nothing. I didn't like that feeling.

As kids, we were used to playing football with anything that we managed to kick and whenever we got a ball, it was a bonus.

There were very few TV sets when I grew up... We could not see matches and did not know too many players. Only Pele was a household name and he was the one most children idolised.