Quotes by Mesut Özil

I am very, very proud I am also Turkish and both of my parents are from Turkey. I was born in Germany and grew up there. By playing football, I learned my different cultures, and that is an advantage if you grow up as a person. You get a different view on certain things. I am very, very thankful I was able to pick the best from many cultures.

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.

I pray almost every day, and you can see that I pray on the pitch. I pray in the dressing room. That is just part of my life.

I spent more time in Spane than in Turkey - does that make me a German-Turkish Spaniard or a Spanisch-German Turk? Why do we always think in borders? I want to be a footballer - football is international and not about where people come from.

I am never where people want me to be.