Football has never been about young or old players - it is…

I have had players who are good, and who know they are good; I have had players who are bad and know they are…

— Bear Bryant

Everyone goes through those stretches. Everyone you talk to in this game, old coaches, old teammates, old players, whatnot, they all have those, 'Oh,…

— Anthony Rendon

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football…

— Franz Beckenbauer

It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

— Tom Watson

What is good with the English clubs is that they respect the old players.

— Robert Pires

If you buy too many bad players, you don't last in this game.

— Harry Redknapp

You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.

— Sam Farha

You have to take the good with the bad. Some players only talk to the press when they are doing good. When you're doing…

— Derek Jeter

Wall Street, like every industry, has good and bad players.

— Richard Grenell

The biggest thing I miss because of football is that I really, really love to go on a skiing holiday but as long as…

— Nicklas Bendtner

You know, us in Africa, all what we know, all what we dream about is football. Because when I was young, all what I…

— Emmanuel Adebayor

When you're growing up, you have your heroes, and you hear about people going off to other countries to play football, but when you're…

— Nwankwo Kanu

I wasn't good at football when I was young but I made myself get good at football because of my mentality.

— Anthony Yarde

I started playing football young, and my career was on the pitch.

— Pep Guardiola

I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer.

— Paul Pogba