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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

When I was younger, I wanted very much to play football.

— Andris Nelsons

My parents wanted me to have a good education, so I finished school, and at the same time I was able to play football.

— Ilkay Gundogan

I've spent my whole life playing football. My father didn't want me to play rugby because he felt it was very hard on the…

— Aymeric Laporte

As a kid, my parents told me I always seemed to play football with older people. As a boy, I always trained in the…

— Emre Can

For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a…

— Marc Bulger

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

— Gylfi Sigurdsson

I remember that when I was little, my parents felt that I should study to become a teacher. They thought football was a waste…

— Sadio Mane

When I was growing up they didn't want me to do it because my mother was a teacher - they wanted me to go…

— Kelechi Iheanacho

Football had been my life but then it all changed when I was 18.

— Thomas Grennan

If I had grown earlier, maybe I would have stuck with football. Maybe. But I was just too small. I was quick, I could…

— DeAndre Yedlin

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