Basketball court Quote by Christian Pulisic

I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the…

— Brandi Chastain

When I was 12 I had the chance with a past club I played for to go to Brighton, and we watched a match.…

— Edouard Mendy

When I was eight, I went into a football school in my neighbourhood, and we played five a side on a little court.

— David Villa

When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the…

— Diego Luna

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with…

— Sid Waddell

I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to…

— Joe Gibbs

It was always like that. After school, we would eat and then it was straight into the garden to play football. We would play…

— Bukayo Saka

I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot…

— Gerard Pique

From Under 15s to Under 19s, I was concentrating playing for England, it was close to me, I could just go to St George's…

— Alex Iwobi

Since I was two or three years old, I remember always being with the ball. I would see kids playing on the street, and…

— Sadio Mane

I went to every game at Ayresome Park until I joined Leeds as a schoolboy. I had to be ballboy and stuff at Leeds,…

— Jonathan Woodgate

I went to England when I was 13-years=old and then I went again when I was 14. When I went for the second time…

— Pirjo Honkasalo