Michail Antonio Quotes

Michail Antonio

Profession : Footballer

Birth : March 28, 1990

Obviously I've been friends with loads of white people and there's certain things that happen and even though they're constantly around black people, they still don't understand. So maybe they can also educate themselves as well.

Michail Antonio

I've been on and off with West Ham, I've had some good seasons and some not.

Michail Antonio

I never really thought about becoming the all-time top goalscorer. Because when I first signed for West Ham, I was just trying to get a game.

Michail Antonio

The way I play, people might say I'm not technically the best. They say I'm powerful, I'm strong. But one thing I learned from when I was young is how to help my team win the game. And that's scoring goals and being strong.

Michail Antonio

I had to be resilient playing non-League because I was 17 playing against men. I always knew how to beat someone and how to use my body. And that's one thing academy players don't really learn. Because in the academy you're playing against people your age. I was always playing against men.

Michail Antonio

I'm an attacking player - I prefer left wing, right wing. They're quite even for me.

Michail Antonio

It's good to have the option to have someone else who can come in and play in different positions.

Michail Antonio

When people run at me, I see what I don't like for myself. When I'm running at people I understand now what full-backs don't like and what they do like.

Michail Antonio

Players that come from non-league don't ever want to go back there, so they have more fight in them to make sure they don't go back to the 9-5 life and build up a strong career.

Michail Antonio

I never question my ability.

Michail Antonio

There are times I pinch myself. There are times where I'll wake up and be like, 'I've got four kids,' or I'm like, 'I'm actually playing in the Premier League.'

Michail Antonio

In the area I grew up, there were loads of gangs and stuff like that, and I was a bit of a fighter growing up. So, it was easy to be attracted to it, but I had my brother there giving me good advice, telling me it's pointless joining gangs, and things like that. I've always listened to him.

Michail Antonio

I don't see any difference between any games, whether it's a Premier League game, a cup game, an FA Cup game; all those games are the same for me. I want to score in every single game I play.

Michail Antonio

I had a short temper growing up.

Michail Antonio

London is becoming more of a business than a place for families. You can't live here. We're not investing in the future.

Michail Antonio

Life is a results game. You turn up late for work four or five times, you get sacked. It's doing the right things and that's one thing I've learned about life. Everything is about results.

Michail Antonio

There was the time when I thought about joining a gang. When you're young and the girls are attracted to the bad boys, the bad boys had all the money. I didn't have much so I wanted to attract that.

Michail Antonio

I was semipro at Tooting & Mitcham. They paid the tax and we got paid cash in hand. I told my mum, 'I'm getting paid to play football' and she took half of my wages. So of my very first paycheque, my mum got half of it. I call it 'mummy tax.'

Michail Antonio

The worst injury I've ever had was a knee in the back when I was 20 or 21, in training at Reading. I couldn't sit down or lie down for a week. I just lay on my front for a week.

Michail Antonio

I was planning on becoming a teacher. I didn't become professional until I was 17, nearly 18, so I was going to college - I picked universities and everything - and I was planning on becoming a PE teacher.

Michail Antonio