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I wouldn’t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.
My parents showed me the good way. The education I had with them and my dream to become a footballer never let me go off the path.
There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.
I like to exchange ideas because we all want to win. If a footballer doesn't agree, then you try and have a chat to work things out.
I work on my speed and strength every day, and I do a lot of work on my first five yards. For a footballer, that's really important.
At a club like City, there are things in the papers and talk all the time. Ever since I've been a footballer, I have coped with that.
If you saw me as a footballer, when I played, I always showed a great passion. You saw Antonio Conte during the game showing passion.
Looking at everything I've done in my career as a footballer, at all the titles, I believe that what's hugely important is motivation.
It's hard losing a parent, especially dad because he was always behind me. It was his dream and my dream for me to become a footballer.
I played semi-pro at Chalfont St. Peter but it's so hard to become a pro footballer - I think there's even more competition than acting.
I remember watching a 'Big Brother' contestant saying that she wanted to be a footballer's wife. I thought, 'What is the world coming to?'
There is something about a cup final that brings out a different quality in a footballer. Do they have the courage to win a one-off match?
Everyone has got a perception of what a footballer is and, because I am a certain size, that I can only play one way - as a battering ram.
But when you are an injured footballer, especially when you are out for as long as I was, you find out all about the dark side of the game.
Dorchester was probably the most important spell. I got kicked around a lot. I was young and it helped me mature as a man and a footballer.
My dad's a worker, an electrician, a bog standard job. Nothing glamorous like a footballer, but yet he still provided me with what I needed.
I was extremely competitive, so for me becoming a footballer was not necessarily because it was about being the best - it was about winning.
My father has played at Celtic before. He has told me it is really intense, and it is good to grow as a footballer by playing for this club.
I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
All I can say is I am a footballer, and if a club like Milan are interested in me, then I cannot lie to you: I am happy, because it is Milan.
I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.
I usually sprint for 20 to 30 metres - occasionally 50 to 60 metres maximum. But no footballer ever sprints a complete 100 metres during a game.
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.
Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.
Of course I know I am not the average footballer. But I'd be lying if I said I set out to be different, I didn't set out to go against the grain.
I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.
I am a footballer. I know how to play football ,and I know how to manage projects in the area of football. This is what I want to limit myself to.
I've had injuries that have hampered my career but that is part and parcel of being a footballer. You just have to bounce back and remain focused.
I went to Japan to experience a new culture, and I would recommend that any footballer does that. But the main reason I went was to play football.
I'm quite unfit. It's the motivation that's the problem, I need a goal. When I was a professional footballer I trained every day because I had to.
My dream was to become a footballer, hope to become the best someday. And I worked for it. And I'll tell you that the work is the magic of success.
Of course I would have liked to have played at the World Cup, but I achieved so much in my career as a footballer that I can't have any complaints.
To the fans, it does not matter a damn how you are. You are seen as the footballer, the idol, so no one thinks to stop and ask you, 'Hey, how are you?'
I'll relish playing at Wembley in a major cup final. It's a great achievement for me, and it's why I became a footballer, because I want to win medals.
The footballer I've admired most in the last ten years is Zinedine Zidane... one of those rare individuals who had the skill but also incredible vision.
Many clubs rejected me, but I wanted to be a footballer and to learn as quickly as possible, so I persisted until I got into Real Sociedad when I was 13.
Part of the reason that I wanted to become a footballer was to help my family and friends financially so that was one of the thoughts that kept me going.
I do think there is a responsibility for myself as being a senior professional footballer to be able to pass on my experiences to the younger generation.
I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.
I was inspired by players like Pepe or Sergio Ramos because they are defenders and by someone like Cristiano Ronaldo, who is an example for any footballer.
Playing in a team like Barca, you always feel pressure. The demand is to win everything, but this is good for you as a footballer: it makes you play better.
I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.
Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.
Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.
I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.
If I'm reading a book by a footballer I don't want to read about games, how he scored or played well. People want to read what you thought, not what happened.
All I dreamed of when I became a footballer was to play for a club as big as Real Madrid. It's maybe the most famous and best club in the history of football.
I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to make the most of all the opportunities that I get.
I promised my mother that I'd be a famous footballer one day after seeing players such as Croatia's Davor Suker and Serbia's Predrag Mijatovic shine in France.