Football Aspirations Quotes

I've always dreamed of playing in the World Cup and wearing the Selecao jersey, but I knew how difficult that was, what with me playing in Ukraine for Shakhtar.

First I was going to be a football player, then after that try to study medicine or engineering. But it was very difficult to do medicine, so I did engineering.

The FA Cup means so much, and one day, I hope I will win it.

I thought at first I was going to be an NFL quarterback. I played until I was a freshman in high school.

I wish to play again for West Ham before I finish my career.

It was a dream to play the World Cup and I will play for sure in the future.

Obviously, being at Wembley, that's where everybody wants to play.

If you want to keep your best players, you need top European football because they want to be involved in that.

When I was five, 10, 15 years old, I always dreamed of being in the best league in the world, playing with some of the best clubs.

I always wanted to be one of the best players in the world like Zinedine Zidane, so it was great that I ended up playing at West Ham against some of the best players in the world.

In Spain, they show many Premier League games on TV, and it is an inspirational league. Maybe I would like to play in the Premier League.

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

I have big hopes and big dreams and aspirations to do great things in the NFL.

To walk out at Wembley in an England shirt is a big deal for a girl who remembers playing in her local football cage down the park in Poplar with the boys.

Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, if I can't I'll have to do something else.

I didn't pick wrestling over football. My coaches picked that for me. I never wanted to wrestle in college. I always wanted to play football. They thought I was too small, but I had a lot of heart.

I would love to play for Real Madrid. And I want to win a World Cup for the U.S. so bad. When the women won it, everybody went crazy. I would love to be part of something like that.

I played for Middlesbrough's youth team. At the age of 16, I went into a shed at the training ground and was told that they weren't signing me on, so that was the end of that dream. Football was my life. I played football when I got to school, football every break and football as soon as I got home.

So many kids want to be football players, and to still feel like I'm living the dream at 37 is amazing.

I hope I can get many goals for Real Madrid.

Top of my wishlist is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.

My goal simply was to have an impact, to try to make a contribution and help the team win. I wasn't thinking, 'I want to play well, so I start the next game.' But every kid's dream is to play in the World Cup. Watching at home with your parents when you're 10 years old, you never think you'll be there in the future.

I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.

I've always wanted to play for Newcastle, and I've only had a little taste of that, so for me, it's about getting fit as soon as I can and getting back on the pitch for Newcastle and making more memories of the future.

I'm desperate to play Champions League football, and that's why I have to leave Villa.