Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.
In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.
I didn't say you were a bad person. I just don't like being a foregone conclusion for the sole reason of having a vagina." - Abby Abernathy
Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.
From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.
Maybe in a few months I can start to daydream if we are still top of the league. That is the main one for us.
I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.
I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.
We've been asked to do 'Playboy' together, me and Victoria, as a pair. I don't think I'll ever go naked, but I'll never say never.
It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.
People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.
Hearts was the pinnacle of my career. After I left, it really was downhill. Hearts is the club I always associate myself with, and I'm proud to have played for them.
We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we were playing Dresden in Germany.
I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
I don't know about anyone else, but if I had problems or issues, maybe I wouldn't feel as comfortable talking about them in a group.
There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.
I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.
