It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nine or ten, I like playing both. I like to score goals, and I feel in both positions I can score goals.
I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.
I just felt that if the team is doing seven hours, I'd want to do eight. I'd always need to do more. I knew that would make me better than everybody else.
When you are playing with a few players in the pocket, it doesn't leave me isolated. I have a bit more space to work and be higher up the pitch.
Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.
The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.
In those one-off games, everyone can do those, but you put together a six, seven-game tournament, the strong survive. For me to still feel good from beginning to end, that's a testament to how I train and what I do.
It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.