Boy Quote by Alan Hansen

I played club football with a traveling team since I was 8 years old. I also played basketball and baseball, so I was competing…

— Jesse Palmer

From the start, all I did was play football. I briefly played badminton and won a tournament when I was 12, but really, it…

— Christian Eriksen

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

— Pep Guardiola

As a working-class boy, golf was never really on my radar, and when I was growing up, Irish football was my sporting passion.

— Ronan Keating

I played football growing up in junior high and high school.

— Ryan Merriman

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL…

— Josh Hartnett

I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we…

— Edin Dzeko

When I was growing up, I was focused on football and school.

— Trent Alexander-Arnold

When I was young, all I wanted to do was play football.

— Gylfi Sigurdsson

I used to finish school and go and play football.

— Roberto Firmino

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

— Frank Vogel

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