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.

I played in Qatar only because I had a great offer and I am not ashamed to accept. We played in empty stadiums! I realised what a mistake I made and decided to leave the club immediately.

People just don't want to pay to see players diving around.

I can proudly say that I had no scandal throughout my career. And there was no serious injury worries because of what I was taught how to live off the pitch. It was very important.

Playing in the German Bundesliga gave me the platform to excel in my football career.

If I had the opportunity, I will ask every Nigerian kid to start his career in Germany. The structure they have in the Bundesliga is far from what is obtainable in other leagues.

The Bundesliga is the league that made me, and it changed my life.

I was gifted with the ball, and I saw the opportunity of playing in the Bundesliga as the tool I needed to make a name for myself.

I got to Germany without being scouted, and without any experience of playing for my country. But I was given the chance to excel.

If you score goals late on it's not the sign of a lucky team, it's the sign of a fit team who are close together and fight for each other.

Stars don't necessarily make a good team and that is what we must learn.

I am proud of the part I have played in the development of Bolton.

I love playing and I'll do everything to be a first-team regular.

I don't want to stay on the bench all the time.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

It's always nice to be among the best teams but not everyone can do that.

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.'

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.