Fran Kirby Quotes

When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.

I started playing football in a school back in Sao Vicente when I was five years old, going towards six. Those were my first steps, among those kids, and then I kept going.

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.

When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

We used to play touch football, where you put the little rag in your pocket. I was good because I was fast. I wasn't the greatest at catching. Sometimes the ball would come so hard and fast that it'd knock the wind out of me.

I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

I've grown up a lot, and I have such great memories of playing football.

I started playing football in the streets.

When I was little I got to dribble the ball around while my older brother Paul, who played for a long time for Kilmarnock, my dad and my uncle Jimmy - who was at Celtic as a kid and played with Morton and Cambridge City - kicked it hard and I got punted out the way. But gradually I got allowed into the game.

I played for the first time when I was three. My neighbour was six, and I went to train with him. But I don't have many football memories from when I was young.

When I was eight, I went into a football school in my neighbourhood, and we played five a side on a little court.

My earliest childhood memories are of my dad putting a basketball in my hand and playing with me in our backyard.

Since I was two or three years old, I remember always being with the ball. I would see kids playing on the street, and would join them.

The best thing about having a footballer dad is seeing the game up close. You watch him train, then go home and practice what you've seen in the front room, rearranging the furniture.

I started playing ball when I was 4 years old.

Sometimes I played as a goalkeeper with my brother and his friends - they were all older, and nobody wanted to go in goal, so it had to be me!

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

If I'm not working on music, I'm probably torturing my infant daughter, Ingrid, with kisses or running or playing soccer in the park.

I've got a lot of very fond memories playing football from the ages of four.

When I was younger, I wanted very much to play football.

We had a court, and my brothers would play outdoors, with rims barely hanging in there.

When I was little, I always loved scoring goals.

When I was growing up, I played football, I loved football.