Sadio Mane Quotes

I've loved playing street football since I was very young.

When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I went.

I have always been in love with football. As a child, I started playing football.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.

When I was young you raced from one end of the street to the other, or round the block.

Growing up, we played sports nonstop. I mean every single day. As soon I got done with breakfast, I was ready to go.

Almost every football player played on the streets. And also, a lot of people not ending up as football players play on the streets. It's the beginning of a lot of social gathering.

Growing up in Belgium, I played football all of the time, in the garden, on the street.

Ever since I've been able to walk, I've always had a ball at my feet.

Growing up in Rochdale, I think, all the kids in my street, pretty much every boy was playing cricket. I had four brothers as well, and we played a lot together. When it was just me on my own, I was bowling at a drainpipe.

I grew up playing in the streets. We played two-hand touch from street pole to street pole. That's how I learned the game.

I played street football from the age of seven and later went into the varzea. Sometimes I'd play as many as three or four matches a day: I couldn't get enough of it. It'd get to the point when my muscles would cramp up.

I watched football, but I was a kid who really preferred being out on the street with my mates playing hide and seek!

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

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

When you are 10, and you are with friends making music or playing sports or doing whatever, I would say, enjoy that and try to keep that as the model for as long as you can.

My mother and I lived in an apartment complex in a neighborhood. So there was a gaggle of kids. Every day after school, we'd just meet up in a field, and some game would be chosen, Wiffle ball or tag, and you'd play that until the streetlights came on.

I began playing football on the streets.

I have dreamed of Brazil all my life. As a child, I had videos of Brazil, of their World Cup wins, of Pele, and of all the big players.

I'm the oldest in my family, and I grew up with brothers, so we would be on the front lawn every day playing football, whether it's tackle or tag.

My memories from childhood always involve a football.

When I'm not working, I'm having fun with my son. We do lots of kids' stuff.

I used to go with my father to practice on the village pitch and with my friends.

I started playing football in the streets.