Raheem Sterling Quotes

I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England.

I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.

I've played 100 caps for England, for my country. Being the first black player, I think, is amazing.

As athletes, we want to represent our country to the best of our ability.

I love running and good running shoes.

I can't say I have a lucky charm, but I do wear a 3/4-zip U.S.A. jacket I wear to every event. I got it from Nike, and it was from the 2012 Olympic Games.

The main thing I worry about with the shoes I wear is comfort. What you're comfortable wearing is what you're going to play your best in.

I just want to represent England whether it is in the middle, at the top or wherever. If it means opener then great but I'm not too fussed about it. I just want to be in the side.

I am never not going to want to play for England so I don't care how old I am. If I am doing well I hope I am going to get picked.

Making the Australian team is the hardest part, and going to the Olympics is the easy part. You're there representing your country - you're representing every single person in it, strangers you don't know - and there's a lot of positive energy, but you have to know to channel it the right way.

I wanted a T-shirt that says 'USA National Team'. It turned out to be a very smart decision.

I think the fitness of players is the key to success. I believe that there should be no place of unfit players in the team because the fit players also start becoming lazy seeing their routine. Having teamwork capabilities is also very important as there comes a lot of times where you have to think beyond your own interest to upkeep the national interest.

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

Reggie [Bush] is the slowest person anyone will ever encounter. I don't understand how he's so fast on the field. He's like a slug!

I was like, 'Huh? You want my jersey?'

You look at all the sporting companies out there. I won't name names, but we know who they are. Good brands and logos and things like that, and they have to start catering to real women. Even in how their sports apparel is designed, and the commercials - you want to look at a commercial and see yourself.

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

For me there's nothing better than putting the white shirt on for England and playing for England. I'd get worried if it wasn't like that.

A lot of people have lost interest in watching England play. To get motivated to watch international football, you need your country to be having some form of success and England haven't had any for a long time now.

If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

There's a few tired limbs in the blue legs.

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Light weight ... Yeah buddy!

The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?

I spend most of my time wearing uncomfortable things, so for me, it's all about trainers.