Born Quote by Scott McTominay

I was a million miles from being a Premier League player. You see some people, at 18 they are ready. At 21, I wasn't.…

— Peter Crouch

It's hard to explain to someone the feeling of going from 15 years old - just playing for your local team, having no money…

— Serge Gnabry

As a young boy you dream of playing in the Premier League.

— Stuart Dallas

The Premier League is not easy for young players because it is very hard, very tough. Most of the players are very tall.

— Nemanja Matic

Every kid dreams of playing in the Premier League.

— DeAndre Yedlin

When you are a young guy you always want to play for a big club, in the Premier League of course.

— Hakim Ziyech

People always tell me the Premier League is a tough competition. Of course I know it is but I think they always said, 'you're…

— Hakim Ziyech

I was 20 years old when I started playing in the Premier League. Maybe mentally I wasn't quite prepared for it, and that has…

— Wojciech Szczesny

It's very difficult to pick a 17-year-old who's had 10 minutes of first-team football. You're talking about replacing senior players with some 17-year-olds who…

— Gareth Southgate

There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.

— Paul Scholes

Young players are always put under a lot of pressure very early in England.

— Nicklas Bendtner

I arrived in the Premier League late at 29 years old - you still have to live 50 years after football. You do your…

— Jose Fonte