The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

Playing basketball is second nature to me; acting I found far more challenging.

For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives.

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

I've learned what F1 is like, and it is an extremely competitive sport on and off the track.