David Villa Quotes

I was eight years old and I was playing rugby for my local club.

I don't know where sports in general will go. But when I grew up, you just played the sport. Parents just wanted to make sure that you were happy doing something.

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

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.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills.

I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.

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

I enjoy teaching football.

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

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

We should be looking to inspire every living person in this country to play the game of cricket.

Schools are really, really important. It gives you access to every kid in the country. It gives you a massive pool of people to see who might be talented at different sports. It allows kids to try sports. Kids can be inspired all they want, but if they can't go out and try a sport, then it's no good.

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 think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

I really actually started when I was 10 years old, but before that, I loved to play with Father because he played as an ex-player. I just enjoyed it, so I started at 10 years old with Father to be a proper football player.

My father and uncles all encouraged me to play football: every present I ever got would be boots, kit, or a new ball, and that was just how I liked it.

I was nine years old, I used to play for a team in Catford. I would get up every morning with my brother, get on the train and travel to Catford three times a week.

I think the first team I ever played for was a YMCA team, probably around when I was seven years old. And really I have vague memories of it. I think, at that age, you're just trying to make sure the ball stays in bounds.

I grew up playing against friends and cousins in the park and it was some of the most competitive cricket I have played.

My first club was FT Gern. I joined through my parents and friends. My father played for them and a friend from nursery school took me to training once. I was five at the time.

On my youth teams, I always pretty good. I guess I just really started to play with some of my peers around age 8 or 9. We always battled and had fun playing in the rec leagues.

From the time I started playing... When I tried out for a team in sixth grade and on - I was always starting through high school.