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By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.

I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

I always wanted to act.

I don't regret giving up football for acting. I love football and am very proud I played for Morton. But the truth is, I wasn't going to get much higher in football. At the same time, I sensed I could go somewhere in acting. I'm 28, which is young for acting, whereas in football I'd now be near the end of my career.

You know, I stopped being competitive after I played football.

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.