Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.

I'm a big fan of old boots.

No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.

Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

That goal [in the 1998 World Cup] changed me-not as a person, but as a player. People have looked at me differently ever since. It gave me confidence and now I feel I can achieve anything.