Patrick Vieira Quotes

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

I struggle to understand why many in football get so upset about dual nationality.

I just feel at Paris, I will have more chances compared to Madrid. I'm French and I choose a French team. People must be happy to keep a French player in the league.

I always say I have two hearts - one beats for Poland and the other for Germany.

I'm half Greek, half Australian.

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.

Actually, I live in FL now. But, I mean, of course I'm very honored to be playing for Japan. But my dad's side is Haitian, so represent.

I have equal respect and love for both England and Ireland, and therefore, the national team I choose to represent is not a clear-cut, simple selection.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

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.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

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.

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.

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner.

Of course, I want to play for England as often as I can and at major tournaments.