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I'm obsessed by coffee.
No self-respecting gym goer skips leg day.
International rugby is an unforgiving arena.
I've always felt Twickenham has a special aura.
Actions always speak louder than pre-match words.
You just shouldn't be spending your summer watching TV.
It must be very daunting being an individual sportsman.
If you want bigger arms, target the triceps, not the biceps.
There is nowhere to hide as an international back-row forward.
Fulfilling your ultimate childhood wish is a surreal experience.
As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.
To get any win, especially against a Welsh side, is very satisfying.
There's only one Lawrence Dallaglio and there's only one James Haskell.
Someone once told me I looked like Mr Incredible out of 'The Incredibles.'
I hate losing and I think it's good to feel a stab of anger if it happens.
Wherever I've played, I only affect the breakdowns that are in front of me.
Shooting's not actually a bad place to take a girl on a date, unbelievably.
I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.
I love Twickenham. It's the best place on earth to go, even when it's empty.
As a schoolboy I can recall playing three games a week and not even feeling it.
Good nutrition must be at the core of all that you do training and health wise.
There's no doubt that 'the plank' is one of the best core exercises on the planet.
Trust me, Stade is not a comfortable place to be if you're losing, regardless of the venue.
To stay at the elite end of professional sport you need to show an awful lot of dedication.
People make very many comments in life when they don't have the background or the knowledge.
Front squats and trap bar deadlifts are the two best big compound movements for quad growth.
I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.
Do I respect my competition? Yeah. Do I always think that I could do a better job? Of course.
People talk a lot about the Welsh fans but English supporters are also among the world's best.
In reality, rugby is finite and unpredictable, so players need to have skills off the pitch too.
When I am doing something I give it 100 per cent. I work on it, do it and go onto the next thing.
When you have two-thirds of possession in any match you have got to turn that pressure into points.
My favourite Heineken Cup memory as a player was undoubtedly sharing in Wasps' final triumph in 2007.
If you've got aspirations to be tested to the absolute maximum you want to be in the starting line-up.
It doesn't matter if you've got the best team in the world, you can't play rugby on your own try-line.
Going to Stade Francais will not just make me a better player but make me a better player for England.
I do not want to gain a reputation for lacking discipline because I always look to play within the laws.
If you have any ambitions to improve and be a world-class side, you have to be very tough on yourselves.
The bottom line is that players have to be responsible for getting themselves in the right frame of mind.
You bring your strength to the game - that's what I've learnt, and that's what I try to bring to England.
I've been written off more times than some of the government's tax returns but I just keep plodding along.
When I started my professional rugby career, in 2002, there was one guy filming training if you were lucky.
Going to a final and winning is the best thing in life, and it makes rugby no longer a job. It makes it fun.
Matches aren't won on the training field and there is no point flogging experienced campaigners unnecessarily.
Rugby is a sport in which you can lose heavily one week and still come back and smash the opposition the next.
In order to pack on the most amount of muscle from your training, you need to train specifically for hypertrophy.
I want to do presenting, I love DJing, I love writing but none of it's a guaranteed job so it's still very scary.
All players want nice things to be said and written about them and you have to take the reverse in equal measure.
I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 14. Weirdly enough, I then learnt, through doing different things, to concentrate.
It is difficult for people across the world to be comfortable with their sexuality. We need more education and awareness.