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I'm from Cameroon, Central Africa.
The Cameroon fans always bring a good atmosphere.
I try to represent Africa and Cameroon as well as I can.
Every player needs to be happy and proud to play for Cameroon.
I've always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.
Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.
I was practically born in Cameroon; my family moved there when I was two weeks old.
I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I've lived more in Europe than Africa.
Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
If one day God gives me the opportunity to coach Cameroon, it would be a great pleasure.
When I left Cameroon, I was 15 years old... I had one dream - it was to conquer the world.
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
If you want the whole college basketball experience, you have to go to a game at Cameroon Indoor!
I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.
I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.
I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
Moving from Cameroon to Texas, that was a change. Learning English, the culture, everything was different so I had to adjust.
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
Cameroon can win the World Cup. People think I am crazy when I say this, but if you believe you have the best team in the world, you are stronger.
Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.
We try to bring in the best players for Cameroon: not just best in terms of talent but those who are motivated and who know what it means to play for this nation.
Within a language, you have your roots, your culture, and I think and dream in Bassa. We have 260 languages in Cameroon, but the official ones are French and English.
Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.
Like many of us in the England squad, I wasn't even born when the men's team played Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup, so I couldn't tell you much about that game.
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia.
I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'
In Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Angola and Cameroon maize is a staple, yet the earliest mention of maize in west Africa comes from a Portuguese document that lists it as being loaded on to slave ships bound for Africa.
I am building a foundation in Cameroon, and it's not just about the sport. The goal of the foundation is not to make a UFC fighter. It's to help kids believe in their dream, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.
In Cameroon, kids have many problems. They think everything is lost before they are born. It seems like they are not allowed to dream. They are not allowed to be ambitious. They just accept being the victim of their life.
One day I asked myself, 'What do I have to sell in this world?' And I realised, well, I only can sell what I have in my bag, and what I have in my bag is my past, and this is Cameroon. This is the raw material of my career.
Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.
I had this DVD that my coach in Cameroon had mailed to me when I first came to America. It was an hour-long tape of Hakeem Olajuwon and some other legendary big men. I probably watched that DVD every single day for three years.
When I was still back in Cameroon, because I didn't know English, I used to listen to French rap all the time and then a little bit of American hip-hop. And then, when I got to the States, that's when I really got into all those guys - Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, all those guys.
My father wanted me to go to France, U.S. or Japan to study. I told him I wouldn't go anywhere, I'd stay in Cameroon and do my music with my friends. He said that the devil was in me and called a priest to remove it. I was the only guy who didn't want to go to Europe - he thought I was crazy.