English - Athlete | December 8, 1994 -
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.
Raheem Sterling
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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.'
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I'm still short now, but when I was 14, I was like a pencil. You had to be aggressive and hold your own.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My mum thinks she knows her football. She'll certainly tell me when I'm not doing something right. At other times, she'll say I'm not listening to her. There's been a few clashes with her.
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I don't want to be the one that says Liverpool can go on and win the league. But there's a real belief and togetherness in the squad; we're all working for each other. We all know what the dream is at the end of it.
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I was looking at the sights, thinking, 'I used to play there a couple of years back, and now I'm on the coach with the England team.'
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Growing up, you watch players like Ronaldinho playing in World Cups, doing the business, and you idolise these people.
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I am always analysing myself; I am always critical of myself and always trying to improve.
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Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'
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