Ross Barkley Quotes

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

I just want to continue to play football and be myself.

Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.

To be a footballer was just a dream, and I don't believe in dreams. I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there's nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

Become your dream.

I feel like I'm just like anyone else. I just happen to play football, and obviously with that comes responsibility, but I love that.

Football has been good to me. Everyone has their destiny, but you have to make use of the opportunities. I have spent 15 years at the top of my game. It makes me happy. I love the game. I love scoring goals. But I have always taken it seriously. It is not what the game gives you, it is what you give it.

I want to play football for 20 more years. And then coach for 45 years after that.

My ambition is to win the Champions League one day with Tottenham, or the Premier League.

I'm a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream.

I get up every morning and thank God for giving me the opportunity to play football.

I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn't know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.

I got the chance to play the sport that I love, which was football, successfully for 25 years. Life has been great for me.

I have to smile because we, as footballers, are really lucky to do the job we do. But this is not just a job for me. It's my passion.

I do have great memories from when my pops got inducted. Obviously, knowing him and knowing how hard he worked in pro football for so long and what he sacrificed, the physical side of it, the injuries, and the grinding and now eight years into the NFL you know what hard work that is.

For me, it's always fun. You're playing football and living out your dream.

I lived a dream. Any kid who starts playing can't help but to dream to play at a club like Arsenal.

Football is what, 15 years? I want to invest 100% of my life into the game, so when it's all said and done, I don't want to have regrets.

It was always my dream to play for Real Madrid, and I'm going to go on living it because I'm staying.

I had a lot of ups and downs through my career at BYU, through different injuries and stuff. The fan bases have always been right there to pick me up and support me through all those injuries.

From the third grade, I knew that I wanted to play in the NFL. It's pretty cool to see the dream about to come to fruition, but it's just a starting point.

You sacrifice so much to get to the NFL. You miss recitals and graduations. Moments that you can't have because you're focused on being the best.

Bayley is a dream chaser. She's grown up watching the product, wrestling, WWE, everything. She knows everyone, from top to bottom, all the history. She's been motivated since she was 10-years-old and is finally here, trying to pursue the dream, live the dream to the fullest.

Every time I step on to the pitch, I give my all.