Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Quotes

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.

My dream is to get the young people off the streets, to make it possible for them to play football in the stadium instead.

I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support kids to really get out there and work hard in their communities. But I also think that we need poets in our country to inspire.

I am so honored to be working with A Place Called Home as their ambassador to bring awareness to the incredible services and programs which benefits kids in the Los Angeles community.

Yeah, football can change a person's life, it changes a lot of people's lives. You can see the kids we work with. You can you make their day just by them meeting you, that's lovely, that's great.

Free Footie was a great program for me. I really enjoyed it.

We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.

I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

I wound up through a wild set of circumstances getting into coaching. I went in and volunteered with Don Coryell, who was a big part of my past, great coach. A lot of people say he was one of the greatest coaches ever. He was very good in high school, college and pro. Another guy on that staff was named John Madden.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

I love being part of campaigns and events that are working with kids and just sharing my personal experiences.

A year of service has the power to bring young people together from different races, ethnicities, incomes, faiths, and political backgrounds to work on pressing problems facing U.S. society today.

In Philly, there are a lot of social programs. If you have a degree, you can go and apply. I was basically a social worker, but I became sort of a sub teacher in a special program, helping kids with reading or math. But we would also do plays, learn about music... We were doing lots of fun stuff, but that was such hard work.

I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.

I'm always entrenched in the community. I'm always working with the high schoolers, no matter what school they're at. I'm always in my community.

We are a great fit, and I'm excited about the chance to influence a new generation of young footballers alongside Warrior.

I would love to have a career like Zinedine Zidane. He stopped playing, took some time, realised he liked coaching, and started working in the youth academy. I could follow a similar path.

Des Bulpin discovered me and, along with my dad, would be the biggest influence on my career. I remember him telling me when I was 15 that Jermain Defoe and I would play together for England when we were older, and he hasn't been too far wrong.

Coaches around the country are influencing the next generation of men in a positive way.

I do think there is a responsibility for myself as being a senior professional footballer to be able to pass on my experiences to the younger generation.

I was mentored in high school through the National Hispanic Institute and I did the same for girls when I got older.

I managed Zlatan when he was young and sometimes also difficult! But, okay, that is normal.