Ball player Quote by Owen Hargreaves

I thought I was great at football. For a long time I thought I could have been a professional if I'd wanted to.

— David Baddiel

I don't say I'm necessarily a professional football player. I'm a competitor. That's what was instilled in me as a young boy.

— Julian Edelman

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was…

— Graham Potter

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

— Lynn Swann

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when my family…

— Gervinho

Like I've always said, there's a lot that goes into being a football player that isn't the playbook and being on the field, but…

— Devin McCourty

I love football and played when I was a little kid. I was good but I'm not sure I was good enough to be…

— Marcos Maidana

I was extremely competitive, so for me becoming a footballer was not necessarily because it was about being the best - it was about…

— Vincent Kompany

I don't judge my success in life as a football player.

— Tim Tebow

Since I was five or six years old, I just wanted to be a professional football player. I wanted to play against the best…

— Chris Coleman

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

— Tom Brady

I worked hard to be a professional footballer.

— Darren Fletcher