I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.
I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.
When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.
The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.
I am European Games champion now as well as Olympic champion, European champion, and world champion.
I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.
Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.
I've been proud to be national champion. I've really enjoyed it. I have very little opportunity to remind people that I'm British and it's a nice way of staying in touch. I'm going to defend it fiercely. I want to keep it.
I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not going to change.
If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.