Street Play Quotes

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.

When I was a kid, there was nothing better than water balloon fights. I grew up in Brooklyn: we had the fire hydrants, and we would open up a soda can at both ends and squirt people walking by. I love the kinds of things that encourage you to let your guard down, be open and vulnerable, and just to be laughing sincerely.

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

I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.

I remember I'd be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I'd come home with sore feet, but wanting to do the same the day after. That passion made us keep playing. Playing in the dirt was our daily joy.

My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

Luis Suarez's always been a great role model for me. His style of play is sometimes like he's playing with his mates in the street.

I began playing football on the streets.

I was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a 'street boy': we grew up on the street, played on the street, did everything out on the street. It was a difficult life altogether, but that's how we grew up.

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

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.

The street is the best way to become a good footballer.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Since I was two or three years old, I remember always being with the ball. I would see kids playing on the street, and would join them.

As a kid, we used to play wearing a Liverpool shirt in the streets.

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

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

My football comes from the streets.

I was always playing on the streets with my friends until I was 15 or 16 and I wanted to do things with my skills that were exciting.

I wish we could get back to those days, just let kids go and play and enjoy themselves on the streets instead of at academies too young.

I used to play football on the streets with my friends and ended up where I am today.