My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

Before I arrived here [ Borussia Dortmund], a lot of people were questioning about whether I could ever play as a striker, that I was a guy who could only run down the wing quickly.

Most of all I hope the tournament [The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations] will help unite our people [in Gabon]. My wish is to celebrate a big party all together.

I want to score goals in every match, as many as possible.

I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.

First and foremost, we have to focus on what we're doing and not worry about what Bayern - or any other clubs - are doing.

Every goal is hard work, especially in such an excellent league as the Bundesliga; or even take the Champions League.

I've worked really hard on getting into the box more and being closer to the goal, which I think has brought real benefits to my game. It's definitely improved my goal scoring.

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky.

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.