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Victor Osimhen
23 quotes
“I don't change my circle because I don't need to. Nothing changed. The only thing that has changed are the clothes that I wear. My attitude is still the same.”
Victor Osimhen (born 1998) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘I only change clothes, not my circle’ – Osimhen. Daily Post Nigeria, 23 July 2023.
“A lot of people worldwide consider the Premier League as the best and the strongest league but now I’m in one of the best leagues in the world which is the Italian Serie A.”
Victor Osimhen (born 1998) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Victor Osimhen to England is ON! Napoli talisman admits Premier League 'dream' amid summer transfer talk. Goal.com, 6 March 2023.
“I’d go to the dumpsite with my friend to look for them. We’d see Nike left and Adidas right and try to combine everything together. I lived in a really poor neighbourhood and in our street, my family is one of the poorest. Sometimes the landlord would come to harass my dad and sisters for rent and I’d go around the corner to cry and pray to God to help me.”
Victor Osimhen (born 1998) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lille’s Victor Osimhen on his rise from a Lagos landfill, rejecting Arsenal and interest from the Premier League. The Independent, 15 April 2020.
“There was a time I spoke to my former agent and told him that I was ready to go to a third or fourth division club in Germany, as all I wanted to do was to play … My whole life has been a struggle but I always come out on top,”
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“Whatever bad things happened there, I take full responsibility for it. It was my decision to go to Wolfsburg, to try to improve, because I knew that I was still a work in progress after the World Cup in Chile. I had Mario Gómez there, Divock Origi too.”
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“I had to learn from these people … I was rejected by two clubs in Belgium before I had the opportunity to sign for Charleroi on loan”
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“I cannot lie: it was draining at first. I was the highest goalscorer at the Under-17 World Cup and picked as the second-best player of the tournament [but then seeing] my career going down and hearing people say all sort of [negative] things about me … I know the kind of player I am and the quality that I possess.”
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“I knew that just one season will change my life for ever.”
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“I knew that football was the only way to get them out of poverty, so I really invested my time and my life into this job. I am happy that it paid off. Getting my family out of poverty is my biggest win.”
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“Olusosun is a small community close to a dump site. Most of the time people go to the dump site to take some valuables for money and resell. I used to go there to look for old boots that I could use to play football. This is how I grew up.”
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“For me, it’s to set a standard, to set an example to the younger generation that even though you dropped out due to some kind of challenges, you can always go back to school because the school is always there.”
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“So for me, it will be an amazing thing to also try to get a degree, which I’m still considering because football is not something you will play for so long, probably 20 or 25 years, and then you’re done”
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“As an adult, not everything I learned in school. There are some kinds of life lessons you encounter through life’s journey,”
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“Most of them say they didn’t believe that Osimhen was going to come to their club. But for me, it was easy because the coach played a huge role in making me come here,”
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“I am my own critic. That’s why I don’t really care about the negative things people say about me online,”
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“When I spoke with the coach, he told me about the project and what the club had set for itself this season. I think we have the same mindset,”
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“I get home, watch the highlights again, and think, ‘Victor, you could have done this or that.’ I am still a work in progress,”
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“Andries came to me, asking, ‘Why don’t you take the ball?’ Then the goalkeeper, Muslera, also asked why I missed those chances.”
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“I feel like I could have gotten five goals, but I got just two. I wasn’t really happy about it, but my team won, which is the most important thing,” he explained.”
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“I spoke with the president when I arrived here and we want to really make a statement in the Champions League. We want to show that, in Türkiye, we are the team that the whole world will know this year because we actually did something amazing in Europe.”
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“We’ve dominated the league for years. We will keep on dominating it, but now it’s time to make a statement in the most prestigious games,”
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“I saw the way my brother used to work because he sells sports newspapers. And if you sell sports newspapers in Nigeria, you can stay on the roadside, or you have your newspaper in your hand and you walk through the cars and hold up. He was the person that actually inspired me to hustle so hard.”
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“In the footballing aspect, it was Drogba because I saw him and I tried to model my game to his, and I tried to see how he plays, and how he’s living life outside of football. So, I have to be grateful for that man because for all I am now, I think I attribute some of my successes to him.”
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Recorded in: ]https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/029f-1f1d4ed5aaa3-8cba76dd1f3e-1000--victor-osimhen-