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

No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.

In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.

Football is a game you're supposed to have fun in.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

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.

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

Football is like life and I know life.

I'm definitely Australian and wouldn't have it any other way. I've been formed as an athlete in Australia.