Dedication Quote by Alphonso Davies

If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you're growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it's very…

— Chris Coleman

Most of the youngsters I grew up playing with do not have a career in the game now. Sometimes people think it is easy…

— Philippe Coutinho

The hardest thing for young footballers is that you start earning money and you can start copying other players.

— Lee Cattermole

You work so hard when you are young just to get to be a footballer, so when you make it you shouldn't complain.

— Darren Bent

There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.

— Paul Scholes

When you get into the first-team, it's hard for young players because they're going into the spotlight. But there comes a time when it…

— Scott McTominay

The beginning of a career is hard for many players, often because of the ordinary day-to-day problems that football and life bring.

— Cafu

A lot of kids, when they get to 18 or 19, they start getting flashy and forgetting about the real basics of being a professional footballer.

— Reiss Nelson

I have genuine empathy for the fact that if you're a professional footballer, you've often started at three years old, you've been found, you've…

— Brett Goldstein

That's what you have to watch for in all young football players - can they meet that expectation with work ethic? That's one thing…

— Jerome Bettis

When you look at youth, they want to aspire to somebody. You can see that with him you have to work hard, and that's…

— Edgar Davids

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

— Ryan Babel