Ousmane Dembele Quotes

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

The first few months in a new country are always really hard.

It is not always easy to change country.

My first year in Munich was definitely not easy.

You never know for sure whether a player will adapt to a new country until he gets there.

Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it.

It was tough moving to Italy so young. You don't have much experience of life, you are leaving your family and everything behind to go to another country and another culture.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me.

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.

I did take a huge leap moving countries. People have no idea how huge it is to relocate overseas. Finding your new life alone is enormous, and then starting a new career in Hollywood is so big.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

I am still adapting to London life, but England was always a country that 'interested me.

The first season in a new country like England is very difficult.

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

Both of my parents sacrificed a lot. My dad, Tero, would drive me to training every single day. My mum, Teija, came to Seville to help me. She did everything for me. It was such a big place to go at 17. Even if you can speak English, it doesn't matter there. It was all Spanish. They don't do English.

Everything has changed since I came to China.

It wasn't easy for me to find my feet when I first arrived in Europe.

I'm a country boy who hasn't really been exposed to city living, and it throws me.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.

I am starting to like L.A., but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have to acclimatize as much as I did to L.A.

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.