Performance Quote by Todd Cantwell

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

— Jack Wilshere

When you leave school and go into an academy, you understand its about what you contribute to the team. What stuck with me was,…

— Emile Heskey

It is something that has grown on me. When I was in the academy, coaches used to say to me, 'you have got to…

— Emile Smith Rowe

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

— Neville Marriner

If we have players that come out of the academy, we make them an offer of a present and a very good future, and…

— Joan Laporta

It takes a lot of pressure off you just to go out and play, and your talent sometimes shines even more when you don't…

— Alex Rodriguez

I think it's important to have an adult with you at that stage of your career, when you go from the academy to being…

— Nicklas Bendtner

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

— Mats Sundin

When you're a scholar at the academy of a professional club everything is quite nice and easy. Then suddenly you're up against opponents who…

— Dominic Calvert-Lewin

Once you're a young player and you're getting an opportunity to play, I think if you're good enough, it just gives you the confidence…

— Reiss Nelson

When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That…

— Andre Ethier

I think, in football, you need to be competitive. You need quality. You need to be organised and to push.

— Unai Emery