Adrian Lewis Quotes

There has been a great list of players who cut their teeth in Europe.

Tottenham is the club that first gave me my opportunity to play in one of the strongest leagues in the world.

I got scouted at six by Everton. My parents said it was maybe a bit too young. A year later, I went down to trials at Everton and have been there ever since.

I played for Barcelona, for Ajax, where it's important to develop and integrate young talent.

These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.

Little details about young footballers catch your eye when you have been around a big club for a long time. At first, it can be minor things, like the way certain young players stand out from the group when the academy lads cross paths with the senior team on their way to training in the morning.

As far as I am concerned, Donnarumma is one of the most important goalkeepers in the world.

In Holland you go into amateur teams, come up through the ranks and are generally spotted for senior or professional football. At 16, I had made it into a men's amateur team, and was picked up professionally from there.

I signed as an 11-year-old for Everton. I broke into the Under-18s at the age of 14, then the reserves at 15, then I was in the first-team squad at 16.

It was through the Hammerheads that I got a route into the professional game, via a trial at Sunderland from Mick McCarthy and then an invitation to come back to Carlisle in 2004.

When I left Carlisle United for the first time at the age of 16 in 2000, I hated football.

I've practically grown up with FC Bayern Munich since the age of 11. In my case, a talent scout noticed me when I was playing for a local youth team at Gern in Munich.

Manchester United would like to have world class players.

I was very close to joining Manchester United.

When I first arrived at Napoli, I was the ball boy, which meant that I got to watch as the legends trained. Then, once I joined the youth team as a young teenager, I was a midfielder just like Tardelli.

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

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

I want to be a footballer. I don't want to do anything else.

I began my journey as a 16-year-old boy at the Arsenal's academy, trying to one day become a first team player, going out for evening runs in East Barnet with Jack Wilshere.

My father has played at Celtic before. He has told me it is really intense, and it is good to grow as a footballer by playing for this club.

Monaco have been very important for me. It's the club that has helped me into the Selecao.

I want to be a Premier League player, a Liverpool player and an England player.

I signed for Ajax in 1989 when I was still at school.

Liverpool followed me for a long time. When I arrived in the offices there, they showed me cassettes of me in the Under-15s. Everyone knew me. I couldn't believe it.

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.