I know that nobody will be satisfied with anything less than coming home with the World Cup.

It's special - when you start playing, you are aware of names like Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie; you have seen them playing and know what great players they are. So it's fantastic to have a chance to line up with them. I'm really pleased with how that understanding has started off.

Losing one final, that happens, but when it happens three times in a row, that is something else entirely.

I have a lot of very happy memories of the Olympic Games, and the final against Nigeria and the goal mean an awful lot to me.

There wasn't much money in this sport when I started, but I didn't get into it because of money. I loved to fight, and I loved MMA.

I can only tell you that I am a clean athlete and an honest person.

I think basketball IQ, work ethic, competitiveness are probably the most important things in a basketball player.

It's in that moment - when millions of fans are holding their breath as the football hurtles towards me at 80 mph, and all I have is within 0.42 seconds to react - that I need to feel mentally and physically prepared.