Jack Butland Quotes

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

Sometimes I played as a goalkeeper with my brother and his friends - they were all older, and nobody wanted to go in goal, so it had to be me!

I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

I remember how inspiring it was to meet players like Bobby Charlton or Bryan Robson when I was a kid. I still remember Clive Allen showing up when I received a trophy for my Sunday league team.

Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.

I promised my mother that I'd be a famous footballer one day after seeing players such as Croatia's Davor Suker and Serbia's Predrag Mijatovic shine in France.

I play at Manchester City. I try and give performances for them game after game.

I would like to score many goals.

I like to be in the box where it happens, to score goals or give assists.

Besides my father, who used to be a footballer at the local level, it is Messi for whom I started to play football.

We are Italy. It's only right that there is competition in attack, like there is in every other role.

I first learnt to play football as a striker and it was only when I joined City that I learnt how to become a midfielder thanks to the help I received from the staff at the Academy.

I looked up to Cristiano Ronaldo, and then it was always Didier Drogba.

When I first began playing football, I was a striker.

Napoli's game is perfect for me. I will always get goals here.

I became a professional footballer because I love football.

I was a fan of Henk Groot, former striker of Ajax, who scored many goals with his head. I thought, 'I can do that also,' but I couldn't.

Scoring goals is nice, but I'm nowhere near Platini. I hope I can get closer to him.

I want to play right-back. I have worked my whole life to get to where I am now in a World Cup squad and to showcase my talent in the World Cup stage, playing in my position.

I believe I can be a great player for Manchester United.

For me, the best player in the world is Messi, but the second one is Cristiano.

I have the dream of playing at a World Cup and winning a Champions League.