You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

I've loved George Michael for as long as I can remember. He was an absolute inspiration. Always ahead of his time.

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

The big thing is, everybody says it's being in the right place at the right time. But it's more than that, it's being in the right place all the time. Because if I make 20 runs to the near post and each time I lose my defender, and 19 times the ball goes over my head or behind me - then one time I'm three yards out, the ball comes to the right place and I tap it in - then people say, right place, right time. And I was there *all* the time.

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.