No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.
It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him.
I don't feel the need to be seen, to be glorified in any way.
I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.
I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.
I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet.
The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.
I let people say and write what they want.
I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.
There's nothing quite like a World Cup.
At 18 to 20, I was probably one of the quickest things around, at the peak of my powers.
We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.
My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.
But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.
In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.
Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.
Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.
