If people want to write about my mum's bathroom in her house, all I have to tell you is that 15 years ago, we were cleaning toilets in Stonebridge and getting breakfast out of the vending machine. If anybody deserves to be happy, it's my mum.
— Raheem Sterling
I'm still short now, but when I was 14, I was like a pencil. You had to be aggressive and hold your own.
If you grew up the same way I grew up, don't listen to what certain tabloids want to tell you. They just want to steal your joy. They just want to pull you down.
I just want to be seen as a kid who loves to play football and to do the best for the team.
Goals can help lift me to be one of the best two or three in the world, most definitely. You score the goal that wins the football match five, six, seven times a season: you are one of the best in the world. And that's what I need to do. I need to keep being consistent.
I've got that face. You know when you see someone on TV and go, 'I don't like him?' Some people have that face, and I've got it. I can't do anything about it.
There's a perception in certain parts of the media that I love 'bling.' I love diamonds. I love to show off. I really don't understand where that comes from.
I grew up five minutes from the stadium and watched it being built. I'd play football right outside and look up at this huge stadium with all the cranes and building work and think, 'One day, when it's finished, I need to be playing in here.'
A few years ago, I would let it get to me. But now, as long as my mum and my sister and my kids don't have any stress, I'm good.
I don't talk about how many cars I'm going to drive, how many houses I've got. I just purely want to be the best I can be.
Performing for my dad does drive me on. Especially in big games, massive games.
One of my friends, Bruno Andrade, was so quick, he just used to knock the ball past whoever he was playing against, and I thought, 'Why can't I do that?' Until then, I would try to dribble and maybe try a stepover, but Andre would just knock it then - beep, beep - and he was so fast, he would get there first.
England is still a place where a naughty boy who comes from nothing can live his dream.
I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.
It's never been about money. I talk about winning trophies throughout my career. That's all I talk about.
I've just got face: he looks like a brat. The 'I don't like face.' That's how I see it. And I'm not a brat. Sometimes I'm watching a movie, and you see a character and go, 'I don't like him' - that's me.
