Game Quote by Gareth Barry

I got the Liverpool job when I was 38.

— Graeme Souness

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

— Toni Kroos

I even used to play as Liverpool on the PlayStation on 'FIFA' when I was 18 or 19, as Steven Gerrard, Sami Hyypia, Jamie…

— Mohamed Salah

I signed as an 11-year-old for Everton. I broke into the Under-18s at the age of 14, then the reserves at 15, then I…

— Ross Barkley

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

— Jens Lehmann

Even though I'm 32 I feel like a kid again. I've got so much enthusiasm for the game. The fact that I'm playing under…

— Rickie Lambert

England Under 16, Under 17, Under 18, I played centre-half. But back then, David Moyes thought it was difficult to throw a 16-year-old in…

— Jack Rodwell

Some people might say I'm old at 28, but I look at someone like James Milner. He's 32 and playing like he is 25 or something.

— Jordan Henderson

I was at Everton from the age seven. Being there 14 years meant any move was going to be big.

— Jack Rodwell

I was an 18-year-old lad playing in a Scottish League Cup final at Hampden in front of 60,000 against Celtic. That's an experience I…

— James Maddison

When I broke into the Everton side under Roberto Martinez, I was playing in the No. 10 role, and I had never played there…

— Ross Barkley