Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.
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.
I always wanted kids I could take to work, and for them to experience the things I experience. So, having three boys as a footballer was a dream.
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?
So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.
It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about.
Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.
The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.
I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.
I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.
There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.
I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
