We're not women - we're playing football.

My first aim is to stay healthy and help the team.

I want to go my own way - to build my own career. To be known as Emre Can.

Van Gaal does a good job wherever he is.

There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game. I think that's why it's so popular. That's why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.

I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports psychologists are crutches, and they tend to soften rather than harden the players.

I played basketball, and I loved it. But I never thought of it seriously as being a professional.