I started playing full-equipment football when I was 6…

I started playing football when I was ten years old, and the main reason was because I wanted to make my parents proud. I…

— Devon Cajuste

I have played football since I was five years old. This is my core skill and it will always remain so.

— Philipp Lahm

In the Under-21s, I played good football for several years, trying to play the same game as the best and with some very good…

— David de Gea

I played my first game of football when I was 3 1/2 years old.

— Adama Traore

“Anoai played football for three years at Pensacola Catholic High School and one year at Escambia High School. In his senior year, he was…

— Marlow Martin

We've been playing football for so many years that people kind of forget we're also college-educated, so we know how to get something, study…

— Devin McCourty

Football is to be enjoyed and I've enjoyed my life in football for many years, it's the pinnacle of my career and I want…

— Sam Allardyce

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

— Ronald Reagan

I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

— Brian Bosworth

I played Sunday junior football for 6-7 years. Then I was at Stansted for two years between 19 and 21.

— Dwight Gayle

I had zero opportunity to play football over the years.

— Jill Ellis

I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in…

— Phil Ramone

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning,…

— Tori Amos

I started playing music when I was really young.

— Aleksa Palladino

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

— Flea