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Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be... now!

Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.

Football's cruel sometimes.

Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.