Kamaru Usman Quotes

I play a lot of football, watch a lot of football, and think about football.

For me, football is what I love to do most. It is also the thing I'm better doing than anything else.

I'm a student of the game.

I am a student of the game.

All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it. You just need to pay attention to it and gain experience over the years.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

If you are enjoying your football, you see it on the pitch.

You have to do stuff that you're actually incredibly passionate and excited about and you know something about. The 'oppor-tuneurs' don't do as well as the entrepreneurs.

As a footballer, you want to play every game.

Football helped me. I was in love with this sport.

You spend your entire time 24 hours a day thinking about when is the next game, and you put together the plan and that's a lot of fun. When the game's ready to go, it's just exciting to see how all your studying is going to pay off.

I feel like I've got a routine with how I study the opponent and go about each week.

We all know a lot about something. We all have a passion about something.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

I'm not in this for superstardom. I do it purely for the love of the sport. I just love fighting.

Ever since I was a little kid, that intrigued me. The game within the game was the biggest thing. A lot of people don't see the little things we do within a game.

It's great to understand football - it never stops. Since I started playing football, I always learn from every coach. It's great.

I have scored some goals, but that is not everything, is it? Football is more than that.

It's football. It's what I was born to do.

I just enjoy playing football no matter where I am chosen.

Iniesta teaches you something in every match.

I play because I love the game.

I love to play football. And I think anybody that's ever been my teammate or I've been theirs understands how much I love that.

All I know is professional wrestling and sports entertainment. This is all I know, and I wanted to give it everything that I had.