Boots Quote by Carlos Tevez

My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.

— Matthew Williamson

It's difficult when you start to play football. My boots were much worse.

— Willian

I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for football boots.

— David Villa

My father and uncles all encouraged me to play football: every present I ever got would be boots, kit, or a new ball, and…

— Fernandinho

As kids, we were used to playing football with anything that we managed to kick and whenever we got a ball, it was a…

— Jay-Jay Okocha

In Africa, in general, when a lot of young boys start playing football they don't start with boots.

— Victor Wanyama

I was very skilled at football at a young age in Egypt. I never played with a real ball. We used rolled-up socks or…

— Luol Deng

Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black…

— Vinnie Jones

Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.

— Zinedine Zidane

I'm a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that's because I didn't do that. If…

— Alex Morgan

My mum says that, when I was a couple of months old and couldn't even stand up yet, I'd try and kick a ball.…

— Wilfried Zaha

When I was young we went for a tournament and I was playing in the tournament barefoot. I won my first boots there and…

— Victor Wanyama