They've put skin from my arm on my ankle and from my thigh on my arm. So whenever I get asked what's happened to me, I end up saying it's like a little jigsaw, parts of my body all over the place.

There were lots of Spanish teams who didn't want to sign me because of my height when I was 15, 16 years old.

Being tall isn't what makes you a good footballer, and I don't think that's the defining factor in English football at all.

Sometimes you are valued more when you're away than when you are in your own country.

I love sports, or hiking; you'll always find me outside doing something.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

I was an athlete in college, and Wall Street likes athletes because they're very competitive people that are willing to do anything to win. So I got a job at Bear Stearns in the summer of 2007.

Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.