Jan Vertonghen Quotes

At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.

I started playing at six. I was at a school always playing football with my friends. But I was always bored at home. I asked my father if he could start me in a football team. He took me to a team called Rupel Boom, who were playing in the fourth division in Belgium, and I stayed there for four years.

I had my first trial at Villa at five.

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

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

I played sports growing up in high school.

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.

I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.

I am blessed with a reasonable athletic talent and was an athlete in school.

What our kids learn to do is fight. So when you watch a Devin Booker, you look at Tyler Ulis - they fight.

High school baseball is a passion of mine.

If I am on the pitch then I am happy.