I just need to stay loyal to God and anything can happen.
— Reiss Nelson
My family made big sacrifices but little gestures mean a lot. My sister took me to training when she was pregnant.
I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.
For me, the style of play I play, doing the gym and things like that, it's not really my style.
On my estate, there are older guys and there are dangerous things happening. But I had my ball with me and that made me feel safe. That's where I developed my strength, mentality and ruthlessness.
Street football is very important.
I got scouted for Tottenham and was there for three to four weeks before a phone call from Arsenal came. The first session they wanted to sign me so, happy days, I didn't look back. I'm an Arsenal fan, everyone in my family is Arsenal, so it wasn't a hard decision.
For me, I just want to take things as they come.
Once you're a young player and you're getting an opportunity to play, I think if you're good enough, it just gives you the confidence to go on.
I want to keep doing what I'm doing and, if I do get the opportunity to play for the first team I will give everything.
Mesut's been talking to me and really helping me through the games.
I think that's good for a coach to have two sides: the jokey side and the fiery side.
Adam Szalai and Kerem Demirbay always keep an eye on me and make sure I'm doing the right things.
If I wasn't aiming to break into the Arsenal first team, that wouldn't be the correct mindset.
You can have a bad pass or a bad shot, but you need to do this to take the risk.
It was hard to leave my boyhood club Arsenal, it's still my dream to play for Arsenal, but I know I have to put that on hold and go and play abroad to get some experience in Germany.
I'm a really big UFC fan.
My brother-in-law was a Tottenham fan. He introduced me to football and brought me to Tottenham. At the time I just wanted to play football so I would go anywhere to play.
Raheem Sterling is a role model to a lot of young lads coming through.
I was 17 when Arsene Wenger gave me my first Premier League start for Arsenal against Southampton and I was very immature when I was playing.
When Thierry Henry was U19 coach at Arsenal he gave me a lot of advice. His main thing was staying grounded.
I have an elder brother who adores me and pushed me towards my goal. He just said 'go out and play.'
Alex Iwobi has really helped me.
I was nine years old, I used to play for a team in Catford. I would get up every morning with my brother, get on the train and travel to Catford three times a week.
I went away in Germany and I think I did well. But the main goal for me has always been playing in an Arsenal shirt week in, week out.
I always try to be positive but not expect too much of myself, just have a nice balance.
I just look ahead to the next match. I just want to keep going and not look too far ahead.
It's a different style the way the German players play. I think the English players like to play a lot of one and two touch and we can find each other in the pockets.
Unai's very positive and always telling you to express yourself, but also he's got that thing where he'll tell you if you do something wrong.
A lot of kids, when they get to 18 or 19, they start getting flashy and forgetting about the real basics of being a professional footballer.
It's a great feeling to have a lot of big characters in the team who are willing to help the younger players come through and help them do well.
You need to shoot to score the goal. If it goes wide, you just need to keep going and keep your head up.
A loan wasn't always my first option, but when I heard the Bundesliga and Hoffenheim was an option for me and working with the manager there, it was something I wanted to do.
Thierry is an Arsenal legend and I had an opportunity to spend time with him when he was a coach at the academy.
My brother-in-law skipped work to get me to training. Our family get us through. We'd get the train, a bus and sometimes even walk to training.
I learned so much stuff at Hoffenheim and made a lot of friends. I also made good connections with the managers. They taught me a lot that I can take on in my career.
I've got a lot of time and respect for Arsene, and I think he developed me into a good young man as well, and I'm very thankful for that.
In Heidelberg, in Hoffenheim, there's not much going on. I am so used to being around my London estate, so when I am here I am kind of lost in a different environment, a different area.
Where I come from, the estates are not so nice. It is a bit gritty.
It was different coming from Hale End to London Colney. The coaching is so much different and the environment - you've got loads of first team players and world-class players there.
Being involved with the first team, be it in the Premier League or the Europa League, you just have to take it as it comes. You keep all the nerves inside and just play your normal game.
The main thing for me is getting in the starting eleven and making an impact whenever I can come on.
I'm liking the Bundesliga. There's a lot of top, top defenders that you come across.
I've got a group chat with my friends, and they were telling me I was blowing up on Twitter. I don't really look into those things, though.
For me, it's just about playing - getting the game time you need to prove to everyone you can play at that high level.
I need to just keep training hard and getting all the information from the coaches and the players.
I go bowling, but I'm not very good!
That's the thing with football: you have some good games, you have some bad games but the main thing is that you go back, you recap and next week you're ready to fight again. That's the main thing.
I just go with the flow, you know.
MMA is something that I may want to get into after football.
