I never felt my career was going backwards.

Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you.

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

When you are happy and playing regular football, that can make life a lot easier.

I was playing college football, and I hurt my knee very badly my senior year, and I didn't want to get a real job.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

m so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.