As professionals, you always have to perform to the top of your ability.

I don't take the ball in the middle of the pitch and dribble past six guys.

Sometimes I watch past goals, but I don't watch them because I think that it'll help me to score in the next game.

I have spent much of my youth on artificial pitches. The body can feel a little heavier, but the ball is there quicker and cleaner.

Not many people know, but my joints are extremely hypermobile, and that's why I'm more prone to injuries. That's why most of my major injuries were with the joints. I had a career-threatening wrist injury where picking up a fork to feed myself was a problem, and the thought of playing tennis again was so far from my mind.

Sport is a great way to keep fit. It's a stress reliever.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.