When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved.

I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.

One player's influence in football is not as big as in other sports: it's 11 players vs. 11 players.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

You don't want to let the other team feed off your outward physical demeanor. But at the same time, you can't go out and play this game and not expect to just be angry and be competitive and be excited and have that fire in your belly.

Every fighter, when they box, wants to leave a mark in their sport, or a legacy, and I managed to do that beyond my wildest dreams.