East Quote by Emile Heskey

In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a…

— Randy Lerner

Aston Villa is a massive club and I always want to play for huge clubs.

— Darren Bent

I came close to joining Villa early on in my career but nothing happened. I met with them and also with people from Birmingham…

— Roberto Carlos

Aston Villa and Middlesbrough, they showed me what is English football. It's tough, it's difficult and they showed me how life is like in…

— Adama Traore

I knew about teams from England, but I even asked where Wolverhampton played and they told me, 'Well, in Wolverhampton.' 'Oh, it's a city?'

— Raul Jimenez

Even when I went to Aston Villa, it was very important that I was not in competition with Manchester United.

— Peter Schmeichel

At school, I was always a central midfielder from a young age. Then, when I joined Villa at 16, the pre-season didn't go too…

— Gareth Barry

I'm a big supporter of Aston Villa, have always been a supporter of the team.

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

When I came to Manchester, it was a bigger step from when I was in Villarreal. It is something that is not easy, when…

— Eric Bailly

Tottenham is the club that first gave me my opportunity to play in one of the strongest leagues in the world.

— Luka Modric

I played at Aston Villa for four years and most of the time I loved it there, but typically it took me a while…

— Paul Merson

I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

— Ian Astbury