Dad Quote by Ben White

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

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

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

My dad's a worker, an electrician, a bog standard job. Nothing glamorous like a footballer, but yet he still provided me with what I…

— Ashley Thomas

My dad was a professional footballer before I was alive. When I was growing up, he was the one who coached and mentored me…

— Daniel Sturridge

My father wanted me to be a professional. It was always about football.

— Thomas Partey

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

I was determined to become a footballer, not only because I loved the game but so I could provide for my family.

— Naby Keita

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school…

— Alan Shearer

Part of the reason that I wanted to become a footballer was to help my family and friends financially so that was one of…

— Abdoulaye Doucoure

I'd have loved to have been a footballer. I was always playing football and I enjoyed it much more than tennis to begin with.…

— Andy Murray

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