Attention Quote by Serge Gnabry

Not everybody is born at 16 years old ready to go straight into the Premier League and they're physically ready.

— Scott McTominay

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

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

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

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

— Stuart Dallas

To be fair, when you are really young, you don't think about the future too much. You just want to play with your friends.…

— David de Gea

It's crazy because I did say to myself at the age of 16 that I want to be in the Premier League at 24.…

— Yannick Bolasie

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

I have genuine empathy for the fact that if you're a professional footballer, you've often started at three years old, you've been found, you've…

— Brett Goldstein

I feel I have been very lucky. When you are growing up, you have dreams of being a footballer, perhaps even playing for the…

— Trent Alexander-Arnold

A lot of kids, when they get to 18 or 19, they start getting flashy and forgetting about the real basics of being a professional footballer.

— Reiss Nelson

We all know it's hard to have time to come in as a young player - maybe the club and the supporters give you…

— Gary Cahill