EDIN DZEKO

When you get 10-15 minutes, you can't be sad or angry with the coach. You just have to play your game and do your best. That is in my mind always.

I've always tried to help younger players and to talk with everyone.

After I finish with football, I will definitely go home. I won't stay in England, but I like it here, and I'm happy I'm doing what's best to give everything on the pitch, and then when I can, I relax. But the only bad thing is here maybe the rain is much more than in my country, but everything else I am happy with.

I have spent some of the best moments of my career at Manchester City, moments that I will never forget.

I think, for every player, it is important he knows the manager believes in him, and it is important he has the confidence of the manager. That helps you to find the best form.

If you do not play well, it is normal that they criticise you. But criticism is part of the game, so you accept it.

Every time I see a paper, for what seems like a year or more, there is a story saying that I am leaving City or that I want to go. But I've never said that, so the stories don't come from me. I've always wanted to stay at City and fight for my place.

If we start the season with negative thinking, we'd never win anything.

I am excited to play alongside players such as Carlos Tevez and Yaya Toure, whom I have only seen on TV, and to be in the same team as players I have played against such as Jerome Boateng and Vincent Kompany.

I can just remember what I have seen, and then I often think about how I do well throughout the match, and then, if I miss one chance, everyone talks about the miss. Only that.

I never want to stop, and I want to try to be even better.

I really don't need luxury.

If you win, you must be a good team.

I try to assist team-mates.

I want to do more and more; it provides me with an incentive.

English Premier League is much harder and quicker, and also, the referees are totally different because in England, they don't whistle after every small contact like in Germany.

Honestly, I don't know why we can't transfer the mentality we have in the Champions League to Serie A.

Every player needs time to settle in and to get used to a new club, from knowing the league to the other players - everything.

Every player has his goals.

I owe Wolfsburg everything. Without them, I would not have had the chance to play for Manchester City or Roma.

To be honest, I don't feel like I am able to say that I had a childhood, not in a way normal kids my age had. I had something that was specific to Bosnia in '90s, something I call a period of survival.

I try to do my best in every game to help the team.

I'm really happy here at City. It's a second home to me, so it was an easy decision to stay for the long term. I knew from the beginning when I started here that I wanted to stay for a long time - I can't see any place better than here.

Of course, there is no greater honour than to captain your own country.

Saying goodbye to close ones is always the hardest.