If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.

In terms of not retiring? I don't want to leave and think to myself, "Maybe I should have stayed a bit longer". I'm dwelling on it. I have turned down a few Premier League offers. But the fact is, after being at Chelsea for so long and a year with Manchester City, I don't want to get involved in a relegation dogfight.

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

I think about all my successes and failures and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.