If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player.

In my career, there've been three stages really. There's been the stage when you come into a team, you don't feel the nerves, you just go out and play. Then through your 20s you start thinking a lot more about the games and what's at stake. And then, as you get more experienced towards the end of your career, you enjoy it a lot more and you're a lot more relaxed.

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?