Dad Quote by Jimmy Bullard

My family are agricultural workers. They worked all year round, barely a week off, so I was taught to appreciate the life of a…

— Darren Fletcher

I saw my mates go off to get apprenticeships on the shipyards and I went off to chase the dream of playing football and…

— Steve Bruce

I grew up in a footballing environment.

— Alex Iwobi

My mum worked in a grocery shop and played football, and my dad worked with cars, a sales director, and he played to almost…

— Christian Eriksen

I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local…

— Sam Claflin

I played club football with a traveling team since I was 8 years old. I also played basketball and baseball, so I was competing…

— Jesse Palmer

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the…

— Steven Gerrard

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for three years.

— Jimmy Bullard

There was one stage in my football career where I thought I wasn't going to make it. We didn't have much money growing up…

— Michail Antonio

My father wanted me to be a professional. It was always about football.

— Thomas Partey

My dad's a worker, an electrician, a bog standard job. Nothing glamorous like a footballer, but yet he still provided me with what I…

— Ashley Thomas

I started playing with my dad, and then I started going to soccer schools in Sunderland and managed to get scouted from there.

— Steph Houghton