Fallon Sherrock Quotes

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

I started playing with my dad, and then I started going to soccer schools in Sunderland and managed to get scouted from there.

I never expected that I would be somebody. I just started playing and when I was 12, 13, thought: 'Wow, I'm playing good.' Then Dinamo Zagreb were speaking about signing me, I thought: 'Hmm, maybe I can achieve something.'

All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

Ever since I was at Blackburn, when you talk about getting pro contracts I was never the guy that was talked about as, 'This guy is going to be the best player, the next best thing.'

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

My ambition is to play in the Premier League, like every player.

The Premier League is probably the best in the world so if you have a lot of players who play well there, it's normal that they are going to grow as players.

I just want to play well, have the people in Chicago enjoy watching soccer. You have a very good baseball team, a very good ice hockey team, and a very good football team. Hopefully you'll have a very good soccer team.

I've played for England, played in the Olympics and made my Premier League debut.

Kids in Africa start kicking a ball when they are six or seven years old, if not younger. It's like baseball, basketball and football in America. If you're talented, people will find you. That's what happened with soccer. The number of academies has grown rapidly, and people are really into it.

I don't think my parents imagined I'd represent England when they first drove me to mini-rugby at Maidenhead. I was only five but mum lied about my age to get me out of the house.

When I went to Real Madrid, I was only 18 or 19 years old. It was my first year as a professional footballer. I was very young.

At 14 I was the fastest runner in Denmark. I was nearly a professional goalkeeper. I could have been the rival of Peter Schmeichel.

I was 15 when I made my debut for the national team.

I played soccer and could have probably made it to the top league.

I started to play at four years old. I went to Corinthians at nine years old. Then, it started to become more serious.

I was about five or six when I went to the little foundation camps. I got into the academy when I was nine, and I've gone through every age group since and into the first team.

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.

If I can inspire kids to do what I do - want to become professional soccer players - then I think that that's everything I want to do.

I left Brazil very early, before reaching the top level of the Brazilian championship. That made a difference: I was not seen as a 'name' around the country.

I started doing well at Villa when I was six or seven.

In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.