Tom Daley Quotes

People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.

It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.

When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!

I've crossed the Mexican border and gone to Tijuana a few times over the years, but I've never felt comfortable there.

If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed - the language, the country - but it is up to me to adapt.

I was always going back and forth between Singapore and the U.K.

When I came to England, everyone told me that I'd get the hits, so I was prepared for that.

I'm open to going abroad, even though it will be difficult with my son.

It was not so easy for me in Scotland in general.

Life in England was a bit difficult. It is not easy for a South American. Some people get on fine, and for others, it is harder to adapt.

Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.

I was playing for 12 years in Europe. It's a long time you know. When you are from Mexico you miss your family, you miss your friends.

I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents were born in Cuba - and we didn't yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.

When I'm overseas, I suspect I look like Mr. Bean.

People don't know what it's like being the foreigner until they are one.

I would have never dreamt in a million years I would go out with a ballroom dancer from Russia, as, when we were younger, we did not even speak the same language.

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.

I can't believe I've even been to Russia.

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

To live abroad you have to grow up quickly.

I'm Egyptian, and my parents stupidly decided to move us down to South Carolina when I was five, which was pretty brutal.