Achieving Champions League football is the minimum requirement and always the most important thing for [Dortmund Borussia] club. Beyond that, we want to win a trophy. Maybe the German Cup, because we've reached the last three finals, but haven't won one, so that's a big motivation for us.

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

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

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.

[ 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.

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

The mentality of coaches and players alike [in Bundesliga]. It's all about winning.