Eniola Aluko Quotes

It can be difficult for players who are perceived to have turned their backs on England, as Wilfried Zaha has found out after deciding to play for Ivory Coast.

It had never been a decision to choose between the French national team or the Senegalese national team because I was growing up in France and playing in the French youth national team, so it was something really normal.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I could have become an E.U. player if I'd wanted to, but I am, and prefer to remain, Argentine.

I do feel my African side, but I've always wanted to play for Germany. Ghana did contact me, but I told them and my dad that I was sure I wanted to play for Germany.

I'm enjoying it with Ireland, and I won't be pressured into playing for England.

England have never wanted me at underage level; it's always been Ireland.

If I went to Spain and lived there for five years, I'm not going to play for Spain. For me an English player should play for England, really.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

I am extremely proud to have the surname Ambani. I am proud to be a Gujarati, and above all, an extremely proud Indian.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.