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You can be 19 or 20 and playing reserve team football, be able to say 'I played at,' say, 'Manchester United,' even though you…

— Matt Doherty

We grew up in an age of playing reserve team football at the stadium. If the first team were playing away, you'd be playing…

— Paul Merson

I had a rough year, my first year at Man City, a big club for a big transfer fee. There was a lot of…

— Raheem Sterling

There were times when I was at York away sat in the stands thinking 'ah get me on the pitch' playing in reserve games.…

— Ollie Watkins

Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a…

— Kevin Kilbane

You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt,…

— Fernando Torres

My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used…

— Luis Suarez

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

— John Lee Hooker

I want to be playing competitive first-team football every week and not reserve team football.

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

“he wanted to confirm a personal theory: that a reserve team, like any other, could serve as a university of football; because all teams…

— Guillem Balague

If top players don't always have their injuries scanned, then a club will be even less likely to spend 400 on an MRI scan…

— David James

When you've played reserve team football in front of 50 people, then you play at White Hart Lane with five or six of the…

— Ryan Mason

Around the time Andre Villas-Boas became manager I went to a summer training camp in America. But when I got back, to my horror,…

— Jermaine Jenas

Non-league helped me to develop a lot. There were older players, perhaps not as fit or as quick as me but able to use…

— Ollie Watkins

I've achieved big things that would not be possible had I not been at such a big club as Liverpool.

— Dejan Lovren