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That passion and interest in it drove me to be who I am today because that was what I had always loved doing. I remember that there were times people felt my height wouldn’t allow me to play football, just because they thought I was too tall, but it didn’t work that way.

— 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.

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.

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