I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.
I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.
In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.
I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.
I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.
Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.
If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.
Copy my favorite moves and my Tour-proven setup positions, and you'll start catching it on the sweet spot every time, with every club in your bag.
Lionel Logue: Kiss the book, sign the oath, and you're king. Easy.
I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.
My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.
I had plenty of offers to do sponsorships and TV commercials, but it's just not in me. I would love to get that out of me, but I just don't feel comfortable with it.
I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.
It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.
I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.
The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.
For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
