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When you get the respect of the fans, it's very hard not to be happy.
Yaya Toure / Soccer Player
Be Happy
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Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue.
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Queues
Saving
World
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We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.
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Decision
Strong
Weak
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Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.
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Decision
People
Sometimes
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Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.
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Death
Dream
Achieve
Hard Work
Planets
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People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable.
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Ivory
Needs
People
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Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.
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Lots
Brings
Realise
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Iniesta - he is the Zinedine Zidane of the team, because he can do whatever you want him to with the ball.
Yaya Toure / Soccer Player
Iniesta
Team
Zidane
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
Yaya Toure / Soccer Player
Fans
Ask
Family Good World
Meet
Sing
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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English Football
Speed
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Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.
Yaya Toure / Soccer Player
Children
Generations
Important
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My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.
Yaya Toure / Soccer Player
Elephants
Etc
Rhinos
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
Yaya Toure / Soccer Player
Negative
Recognition
Proper
To Be Honest
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I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.
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Africa
Continent
Represent
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I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.
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Quality
Generosity
Involved
Phases
Build
Defensive
Foremost
Mainly
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Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.
Yaya Toure / Soccer Player
Dream
Hard Work
World
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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Good World I Am
African
Defend
Europeans
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On the pitch and for life generally, I keep my center by remembering that I am part of a team and if I don't do my part, I let down not just my team but everyone who follows it.
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Let Down
Remember
Team
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I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.
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Give Me
Greater
Manchester
Never Forget
Owners
Pleasure
Treated
Finish
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Cristiano Ronaldo has done massive things in both the Premier League and in the Champions League, but Messi is the best though and I am convinced that next year he will win the Ballon d'Or.
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Champions League
Cristiano Ronaldo
Winning
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Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.
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Elephants
Poaching
Worry
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When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.
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Approach
Different Approach
World Cup
African
Cup
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The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.
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Elephants
People
Rhinos
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I have committed to contribute in raising general public awareness, as well as inspiring broad, positive, committed action against illegal trade. It is an on-going and tough fight, but I believe that if we all join our hands, we can conquer!
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Believe
Fighting
Hands
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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Boots
Expensive
Shoes
African
Family Childhood Always
Pair
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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Nine
Sibling
Tunisia
Family Work Good
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The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more.
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Air
Animal
Water
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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Manchester
Prove
Work Good Money
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
Yaya Toure / Soccer Player
Respect
Difficult
Easy
Mentality
Life Money Start
Africa
African
Earn
European
Start
Survive
To Survive
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Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back to children in West Africa. I support several youth associations, and I am also involved in the protection of the forest in my country [Ivory Coast]. When away from home, I mostly miss people and enjoying a good laugh with my peers.
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Home
Children
Country
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The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.
Yaya Toure / Soccer Player
Air
Animal
Children
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