Careers Quote by Alan Shearer

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the…

— Steven Gerrard

It's difficult to say what I would be doing if I wasn't a footballer, but I probably would have sold coal like my father.…

— Angel Di Maria

I'd probably be working with my dad if I wasn't a footballer. He used to be a gardener. I think that's why there was…

— Ben White

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when my family…

— Gervinho

If I hadn't wanted to become a footballer, Dad wouldn't have made me do it.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

If I hadn't made it as a footballer I would have been an electrician. I studied to be an electrician even though I was…

— Jaap Stam

If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or…

— Gary Lineker

If I wasn't a footballer, I definitely would have been a chauffer because that is my father's profession and he's a person I aspire…

— Pepe

I grew up in a place where there weren't many opportunities if you didn't become a footballer.

— Carlos Tevez

Even in school, when they asked us what we wanted to be, I wrote, 'A professional footballer.'

— Wendie Renard

I only ever wanted to be a footballer.

— Declan Rice

Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been a virgin.

— Peter Crouch