Jack Grealish Quotes

I was playing first-team football at Cardiff at 16.

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

The natural thing in Africa is to start playing soccer at 8 or 9. You go outside and you play like kids play basketball here, and you grow a feel for the game. In Africa, the kids start playing basketball at 16 or 17 or 18, and when they get an opportunity to come here, they have been playing for only one or two years.

I only started playing top football when I was 17 and a half.

I grew up playing defense all the time with my older brothers and the older players.

When I was five, I joined a club, 'Excelsior', the club of Kralingen, in the first division. I was always training. On a free afternoon, I did individual work with Aad Putters, my youth trainer. Not with the idea growing to be a star, but for fun.

If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.

I started playing when I was about 16, and I got picked for the England youth team when I was 17 because I was doing quite well. It's all spiralled from there.

I wanted to be in the situation where I could have a chance to go to the NFL and be a great quarterback and take care of my family.

I started going training with Southampton, and they were selecting the team for the under-9s. I did a six-week trial and got in. I was quite lucky to play at a good standard from a very young age.

City has helped me and Chelsea has helped me to be in the national squad.

I first realised I was good at football when I started getting scouted by United, Liverpool, Everton; clubs like that had a lot of interest at an early age, and you kind of know then you're on the right path. I was about six years old and had to sign a contract at nine.

Ever since I was a young kid, I've been playing for an academy with scouts all over the world that are looking for top players to come in.

I started doing sports when I was 13 and competitively doing sports - where I was actually training - when I was 17.

At 13, Stade Rennais came to sign me, and the whole family moved to Rennes. I wanted my family to follow me and be by my side.

It is my goal to stay with Barcelona for a long time and be successful here.

College football and particularly the quarterback position is a performance-based deal.

To play in League One in every game when I was 18 was massive for my development. It's something I'm very proud of. I have great memories, and it was a great experience.

I started playing ball when I was 4 years old.

Young boys and girls should be given the chance to play football.

From Under 15s to Under 19s, I was concentrating playing for England, it was close to me, I could just go to St George's Park, it was nice. Going back to school when you've just played for England, it was amazing, you're one of the best players in the country, that's why you're getting picked.

I was nine years old, I used to play for a team in Catford. I would get up every morning with my brother, get on the train and travel to Catford three times a week.

To be honest, I started playing for Belgium in the youth team stages. As a kid, Belgium was all I knew. We played football with my schoolmates as well as at the academy.