At Milan when I was younger, I worked a lot on the leg press because I'd lost a bit of my natural speed as my body was changing. I was growing too fast for the rest of my body to cope and I had some knee problems. I worked really hard in the gym to regain these fast sprints.

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I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

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Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

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Before I arrived here [ Borussia Dortmund], a lot of people were questioning about whether I could ever play as a striker, that I was a guy who could only run down the wing quickly.

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Most of all I hope the tournament [The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations] will help unite our people [in Gabon]. My wish is to celebrate a big party all together.

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At the same time the players around me almost make it an automatism to score goals. We have so much quality and speed on the pitch - the genius of players like Mario Gotze or Marco Reus has to lead to goals.

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I try to stay as young as these rookies are.It feels a bit strange not to be anymore the youngster I used to be. But I'm okay with it. Mostly, I enjoy being on the pitch with so many talented players around me.

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The fans of Borussia Dortmund are truly amazing. It is hard to describe what you feel when you play in front of them, the atmosphere they create not only on the yellow wall with its 25000-something fans jumping up and down a full 90-plus minutes of every game, no matter the score or the opponent.

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I've played in France. There, in many matches everybody is already happy if he can secure a point. Here, in Germany? Forget it! Everybody wants to win. The last-placed team in the standings would take any match with the ambition to win it. That makes it so hard, even for the best teams in the league.

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I've worked really hard on getting into the box more and being closer to the goal, which I think has brought real benefits to my game. It's definitely improved my goal scoring.

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My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.

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I want to score goals in every match, as many as possible.

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Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.

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I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.

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[ Won the 2015 African Player of the Year]meant everything to me. It was the first time a footballer from Gabon was elected Africa's Footballer of the Year. Even for the Bundesliga, it was something no African player had ever achieved. It still makes me incredibly proud and the happiest person on the planet.

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The moment my name was called [Africa's Footballer of the Year] was truly overwhelming and I was about to scream with joy.

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First and foremost, we have to focus on what we're doing and not worry about what Bayern - or any other clubs - are doing.

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Every goal is hard work, especially in such an excellent league as the Bundesliga; or even take the Champions League.

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It was Thomas Tuchel's first season as coach and I played centrally always. The whole team had a great year, one that I enjoyed a lot. Our style has changed a bit, from trying to score within five seconds to a more calm and in some regard more educated style of play. We try to find the right moment - and then we explode.

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[Didier] Drogba sent me a text message after I won the African Player of the Year award. It made me very happy.

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With [Samuel] Eto'o, I talked a lot about his great career and how I could become a better player.

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