When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.
And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.
I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.
Although I'm a scratch Ping-Pong player, there is no possibility of me beating a top professional.
I did 'The Frank Skinner Show,' and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen.
It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.
I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.
I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.
I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
There's a tacit understanding among clubs that a good player shouldn't miss out on the big break of his career or a chance at exponentially improved earnings.
Some players are criticised for having no loyalty. Well, I wanted to go back home and play for the club I supported. I don't think that's a crime.
Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?
I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
