Footballer Ambition Quotes

It's a dream to play for England, so if I'm selected, I'd look forward to playing. But it's down to the powers above me.

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

I am not taking for granted a call-up to the England squad or making any assumption about my future international career.

I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.

Real are the best club in the world. Any footballer dreams about playing there, and I am no different.

For every footballer, to finish in the top ten of the Ballon d'Or is a dream.

I've always wanted to be a footballer, and I've always believed that's the path I was going to go down.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.