Childhood Quote by Michael Carrick

I have played at Liverpool, a special club, grown as a player and won titles.

— Xabi Alonso

My first club was FT Gern. I joined through my parents and friends. My father played for them and a friend from nursery school…

— Philipp Lahm

I started playing at my local estate club. I used to wake up every morning to go to play in the club. I loved…

— Gervinho

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.

— Lucy Punch

I went to every game at Ayresome Park until I joined Leeds as a schoolboy. I had to be ballboy and stuff at Leeds,…

— Jonathan Woodgate

When I was 14, I started playing for Taye Academy in the city of Owerri, and then my whole life became football. I dreamed…

— Kelechi Iheanacho

Growing up in Rochdale, I think, all the kids in my street, pretty much every boy was playing cricket. I had four brothers as…

— Sajid Javid

Growing up, there was a rec center by my house and I used to always go there, play ping pong. I got better over…

— Andrew Wiggins

I was 14, and I played this club that's no longer there because it was poorly managed: the Texas Tea House in Fort Worth.

— Maren Morris

Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid.

— Dante Hall

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I…

— Rory O'Malley

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the…

— David Cassidy