Michail Antonio Quotes

Michail Antonio

Profession : Footballer

Birth : March 28, 1990

You can't be around players and not know what makes them tick.

Michail Antonio

I was 13 and one of the boys on the other team called me a monkey. When I was younger, that sort of thing got me angry. I was the one who got a red card that day.

Michail Antonio

Being a lifeguard, not having much money - that is the thing that pushes me the most. I don't want to be in that situation again.

Michail Antonio

I always want to make enough for my kids. So if they want to go to university, I can pay for them to go. Maybe buy their first car, buy their first house for them so they can go out and work and not know the struggle I went through. That is my mission. If I can do that by the time I have retired, then I have accomplished everything I wanted to.

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I feel like black players have come a long way.

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One thing I have always believed in is to never give up.

Michail Antonio

Always have belief in yourself that you can achieve things.

Michail Antonio

Anything is possible in life.

Michail Antonio

I kept going out on loan because I wasn't getting much time at Reading. Then I went to Sheffield Wednesday and then Nottingham Forest and I managed to get to West Ham, where I always wanted to be - the Premier League.

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I don't mind the wing-back role but I don't like to feel boxed in defence. I like to be free, involved and scoring goals - that's when I'm happiest.

Michail Antonio

To have the experience of the World Cup would be unbelievable.

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I'm a person who's quite professional and I believe I'll do anything I can to help the team.

Michail Antonio

I'm a professional player so I'm going to go out there and give 100% no matter what position it is in.

Michail Antonio

Where I grew up, kids were quite bad and people wouldn't really have expected for me to go from there to where I am now.

Michail Antonio

I always believe that people need to strive and push forward and keep going for your dreams and never give up. It doesn't matter what age you are.

Michail Antonio

I'm an attacking player who likes to score goals. I love scoring goals.

Michail Antonio

There's nothing better than scoring a goal and hearing a roar from the fans.

Michail Antonio

For me to become a professional footballer, determination was key, on and off the pitch.

Michail Antonio

I remember going home one day and telling my brother that I was going to give up football because I was 17 and was too old. My brother said he wouldn't let me. He got me my first pair of real boots and those were the boots I managed to become professional in.

Michail Antonio

There was one stage in my football career where I thought I wasn't going to make it. We didn't have much money growing up and my dad always said to me that football wasn't a real job.

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