“Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.” — Patrick Bamford Quote

Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.

It's about getting experience and developing. The best way to do that is to go out on loan to play first-team football.

Football is generally a working-class sport, and because of the fact I went to private school and was brought up slightly differently, people think that makes me a different person.

In my head, if I don't get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.

Most strikers playing in the Premier League regularly are aged around 23 or 24.

I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'

Farooque Sahab was so natural. It never seemed as if he was pretending to be a character that a scriptwriter or director had merely handed to him.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

When we started reading books to Raffi, I included some Russian ones. A friend had handed down a beautiful book of Daniil Kharms poems for children; they were not nonsense verse, but they were pretty close, and Raffi enjoyed them.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'