Around Quote by Glenn Murray

When Carlisle released me, I felt as though the dream of being a footballer was over.

— Glenn Murray

I didn't want to come from playing every week at Blackburn to becoming a bit-part player at United, but I knew I probably had…

— Phil Jones

It was through the Hammerheads that I got a route into the professional game, via a trial at Sunderland from Mick McCarthy and then…

— Glenn Murray

Since I was a young boy, it was about playing football, always as a striker, never another position.

— Teemu Pukki

When I left Carlisle United for the first time at the age of 16 in 2000, I hated football.

— Glenn Murray

I was at a local club, Penketh United, and Mike Glennie, a Manchester United scout, came to watch me. He spoke to my grandad…

— Jesse Lingard

Part of the reason that I wanted to become a footballer was to help my family and friends financially so that was one of…

— Abdoulaye Doucoure

I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink…

— Peter Beardsley

A coach was managing the Newbury team, and he wanted me to play for his local team, and from there, I did it at…

— Theo Walcott

Like any working-class boy growing up in north London, I wanted to be a footballer.

— Martin Kemp

I remember us all playing Trivial Pursuit at home and my granddad was a member of a local quiz leagues. When I was old…

— Jenny Ryan

When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted…

— Alan Shearer