I work out with my trainer or do an hour of pilates at 6 or 7AM. I'm done by the time my household is awake.

I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.

I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.

You know when you play in the big away games that the fans are going to be behind their team and will be booing you. As a professional you need to tune yourself out of that part of the game and concentrate on the job at hand.

To play with Zinedine Zidane was the biggest honour I have had in my career...

I have come to accept that if I have a new haircut it is front page news. But having a picture of my foot on the front page of a national newspaper is a bit exceptional.

Two of my boys are Manchester United fans; one is an Arsenal fan. Whenever there is a game I can take the boys to, I love taking them.