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Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.

In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

When I watched the Premier League on the telly, I didn't expect it to be that hard. The opponents are all physically strong, real athletes. It wasn't like that in Germany. You must be prepared for it. But I prepared myself for it.

I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.