Age Quote by Sadio Mane

I started playing with my dad, and football was my dream forever. Step by step, I learnt a lot. I worked really hard, and…

— Robert Pires

Football was always a dream, but a distant dream until when I was about to go to university. I'd had a couple of trials,…

— Chris Smalling

Football is something I've always dreamed of, it has always been my life.

— Raul Jimenez

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a football player. So I achieved my dream.

— Paolo Maldini

Football was a dream, an opportunity once taken from me - something I thought I'd never be able to do again.

— Brian Banks

I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

— Fabrice Muamba

I played for Middlesbrough's youth team. At the age of 16, I went into a shed at the training ground and was told that…

— Bob Mortimer

I always did football, man. I played basketball. That's everyone's real dream, but that didn't work out too well.

— Todd Gurley

Football is like my family: everything. It's my dream, what I have always wanted to do and without football I'm not happy.

— Joao Moutinho

My dream is to play football as long as I can and that's what I want to do.

— Devlin Hodges

My dream was always to play soccer.

— Bastian Schweinsteiger

When I was younger, I wanted very much to play football.

— Andris Nelsons