Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.
I don't judge my success in life as a football player.
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.
Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.