Alex Iwobi Quotes

I'd always felt like a Canadian living in the U.S.

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

This is nothing less than a national tragedy…. It is time to consider these refugees arriving from Poland and elsewhere purely on their merits as migrants and in an unsentimental light. In the last 50 years these people have swarmed all over Europe, coming principally from Armenia, Russia and the Balkans. We should remember that they are European neither by race, standards, nor culture. They are, in fact, an Eastern people. In 2000 years no one but Britain has been successfully able to absorb them, and for the most part they owe loyalty and allegiance to none.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

Those who came to France came to find France, not to turn it into their country of origin. If that's what they wanted, they should've stayed in their country.

It's possible that Israel will be my second home, but it won't be my only home.

I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six.

I've lived all my life in the U.S., but to be brutally honest, I don't really have any ties to the country apart from my mum and dad. Most of the rest of my family live in the Stockport area, and I've always related more to that side of my background.

I don't want to return to France; France doesn't tempt me at all. I like England.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

As you can hear, I am English - I am from England - and it was really good playing for Ireland.

I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.

Play with Spain? I think that's already closed, but even so, I opt for France because I'm French. I don't have dual citizenship, and I'm not going to ask for it.

I could go back to Argentina to live, but not to play.

I'm very proud to represent Nigeria but I would like to say thank you to England for the chance they gave me, it was a difficult decision.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

I am asking the state of Israel to revoke my citizenship. This wish for revocation of citizenship is neither new nor recent. Now, however, it is supported by the new Revocation of Citizenship Law.

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

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.

When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'

I am still an Indonesian citizen.