I'm a very competitive person.

I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

Football made me want to train and stay disciplined. It kept me away from things like drugs. Young people are faced with the temptation to stray all the time.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.