I'm laid back.

I can play wing.

I'm not aggressive enough.

I don't choose to be humble.

I have relatives in New York.

I'm awkward under the limelight.

My dad tells me to ignore any expectation.

In my career I haven't been suspended much.

The only thing that matters is the MLS Cup.

We like to play with a chip on our shoulder.

I'm not really a big fan of doing interviews.

In England, we're arrogant to everything else.

I want to win and a lot of things frustrate me.

So much of my game is owed to Thierry. We text regularly.

Growing up, I wasn't a big guy; I struggled to hold on to the ball.

There's been a few great moments, I don't hate my career in England.

I'm not Giovinco. I don't get the ball and dribble past three players.

I don't want to define New York Red Bull as one player, or one manager.

I feel like I'm quick enough, and on my day, I can be dangerous in the box.

We strikers, when we're scoring, we're confident, and we'll try and hit anything.

I like to just be humble. The more interviews, the more embarrassed I kind of get.

For me, it's just a decision I made at home with my wife that I'm not eating meat.

I'd rather go under the radar and win an MLS Cup. I really don't need to be credited.

I get my protein, I get everything I need, I don't feel like I'm missing on anything.

When you grow up in the Premier League and grown up watching it, nothing else compares.

Sometimes I feel like you can toot your own trumpet too much. I don't really like that.

Every striker from England I know is the same; they're greedy and they want to get goals.

Wenger is a legend for Arsenal. He changed the game in England and he changed how Arsenal look.

From the bottom of my heart, I've always found compliments hard to take. It makes me feel awkward.

I say this every time I get interviewed, I just try to get my shots on target. If they go in, they go in.

Obviously when you're a striker you need to score. The manager's not going to just play you if you're not scoring.

I'm not too complicated. I don't think I'm great on the eye. I work hard. I try to outwork defenders, and that's it.

I think growing up in England strikers are hungry to just get goals. We have a mean streak in us. We like to get goals.

If you don't win the MLS Cup it doesn't matter, so we know that the big one is the MLS Cup and we'll give our all to win it.

Sean Davis is one of the best youngsters I've been around. He's got an old head on his shoulders and he's a very good player.

I wasn't happy with how I left England. I didn't like where my mind was football wise. I felt like football was coming second.

I remember at Man City when you saw people like Andy Cole walk through the door, you start thinking: 'We can get into Europe.'

If I was younger and I got a new tracksuit, hat, trainers, you couldn't tell me I didn't look good. I thought I was dressed up.

It's hard in England. If I didn't score for three games, there was the chance someone would take my place or I would be loaned out.

Where I'm from, everyone wore tracksuits. If I was younger and I got a new tracksuit, hat, trainers, you couldn't tell me I didn't look good.

I'm realistic. I look for my own target that I set in my head beginning of the season. Once I get there, that's when I start enjoying scoring.

Growing up all I wanted to do was score goals and celebrate with fans - somewhere in that I got lost. Football came second and it shouldn't have.

The Red Bulls have done a good job of challenging me to be a leader, not just be a part of team and score goals, but be someone to be counted on.

A big part of my game is movement. The players that I play with understand that and took the time to see where I like to run, and it's worked out.

I got a lot of unwanted attention when I was young. I'd be at a tournament at age 9 and there'd be loads of people around me. It always made me feel funny.

I don't like to go through games not doing anything and then getting a goal. Obviously that's my job as a striker, but I feel almost wasted. I want to do more.

I'm the type of guy who gets on the end of things. I need to work on my heading and sometimes my concentration is poor but you need someone to finish off moves.

If you stop me from scoring, and I don't do anything else, then I've not really played well, have I? You can't score every game, so what are you doing if you're not scoring?

The MLS Cup is always the goal. If we don't win that, it's always a disappointment and we haven't won. No matter how well you do in the regular season, it's always seen as a failure.

I grew up watching Arsenal. You don't think you're going to get to play with Thierry Henry. Him breaking my dad's record and now he assists half my goals, it's weird. How'd that happen?

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