Jadon Sancho Quotes

We spend on average 220 days of the year out of the country. It's a long time to be away from your family especially when your children are growing up.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.

When I was 16 I took the first opportunity I had to play basketball in a different country. I flew to Europe for the first time and found myself in the small town of Macon, in France. That was the first time I lived far away from my people, from my culture. I was young and had to adapt quickly.

One of my biggest sponsors is based in China, and I probably spend as much time there as I do in the U.K. Over the years, I have really grown to love it, but the first time I went was a different story.

Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

When you're not born in this country, you kind of study how people talk and how they act, and you try and break things down.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

I think I have improved a lot since I arrived in England.

I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.

I actually love the challenge of being in a new place where I'm so obviously the foreigner.

My wife is from India, and I come to India a lot. I have never faced any security issue.

When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American school. Most of the Americans there appeared oddly stifled, determined to remain, if not physically then sentimentally, back in the United States.

Going to Russia is going to be nothing for me. I'm going to treat it like it's the U.S. because, at the end of the day, it's one man, one ring.

Whenever I'm around Spanish people, I'm kind of like a fly on the wall.