Mesut Ozil Quotes

I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.

I keep my Scottish connection. I know where I was born, and that's an important part of my history, and I think all immigrants are the same. But if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia.

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.

I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

We immigrated when I was 3 1/2 years old, to Toronto. But I'm still very, very close to my culture and - back home in Egypt.

When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned to something.

I came to Canada at a young age and I've been here for most of my life, so being able to play for this country is a really great experience and joy.

I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

We made the U.K. our home, and I'm lucky enough that I get to call myself British and have such great support at home.

I've grown up a lot in England.

I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.

I was born in Germany, grew up in Germany, and when I was becoming a professional footballer, I felt like a German.