It was Osgood-Schlatters. It wasn't good. It's a growing pains thing, and I had to have a lot of treatment on it. I just shot up immediately and didn't have any kind of physique to deal with it physically. I was tall, all arms and legs, and a bit gangly.

As players, you've got to keep improving, keep learning, keep playing well to get your place in the team.

United are capable of setting up a low block and making it difficult, but they're also capable of coming out and pressing high.

When I finish my career, I can look back and then decide if it was good or not.

Coach Spurrier was just an amazing competitor. I felt I learned to really love the competition of it all from watching him and being around him. All his assistant coaches were great recruiters, very professional in how they handled their business. So as a young guy, I got to see that all the time.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.