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I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.

Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.

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

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

I'm a person who prefers to play games rather than train.

I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I'm really into them.

I don't have to play football.

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.

Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing.