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When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.