Unless you're at a club long enough that can develop a philosophy of playing and recruiting players that fit that way of playing, then you have got to be adaptable.

If we want to be a top team, we can't get to 3-0 and suddenly decide not to play without the ball. We have to play with intelligence right through the game.

Our country has been through some difficult moments recently in terms of its unity. But sport can unite.

I expect all the players, even the younger ones, to show leadership in their own way.

I hope that any gay kids see me as beacon of light, not just in sport but in general.

In football, you can't always play well, and sometimes there will be criticism. Sometimes when I get a lot, it helps me. It makes me work even harder to improve and make the critics a little more positive.

You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.