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My dad had always been a sports person, my elder brother used to play football then, even my younger brother, so it was as if members of my family have always been lovers of football.
— Nwankwo Kanu
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Suffice it to say everything about me then was football. So, regardless of my height, I would still have played football, and not basketball.
My kids are growing and I don’t want them to have a wrong orientation. So, I’ll still revert to the normal style someday.
It’s very important to be happy with what you’re doing, and to me I’m very happy with what I’m doing because saving a life means a lot more than winning trophies. Trophies are good, but saving somebody who could die, giving them hope of a life, that means a lot to me.
Yes, footballers are very rich, but footballers work hard too. When you work hard in life, you are likely to be rich and if you are lazy, you would likely be poor
The beautiful thing was that when it was time to play, they would leave us to play our football very well, they supported us to go after our passion and those were the things that helped us.
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