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.

The holidays are important, but the path I've chosen doesn't take that into consideration. I do what I can to enjoy them, but it's one of the sacrifices of being an athlete.

I don't judge my success in life as a football player.

Details make the difference in football today. It is part of our process.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.