"The British countries have an agreement where you're only allowed to play for a country if you've got blood relatives, so I've no chance," he told the Sunday Mail as he picked up his Clydesdale Bank award.
Oldham-born Driver praised the Hearts youth system, from which he graduated to the first team.
"Hearts have brought through a lot of players recently," he told the club website.
"There's Calum Elliot and Lee Wallace and then there's Craig Gordon, who moved away for £9m and probably paid for the building of the academy itself.
"They're also widening things by bringing young players in from abroad.
"You see that with teams like Arsenal and it's paid dividends with them."
