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When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.
I have a ton of broken baby hairs in front. It just comes with the territory of being a soccer player.
At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?
The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.
When I was about 16, I started to believe I could play professionally. I worked hard and focused more.
When I end my career, I don't need to win eight championships, I'd rather have done something special.
At the end of the day, everyone is repsonsible for their own contracts. Nobody forced us to sign them.
We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.
I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes.
When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.
My first pair of Jordans, I wore them all the time. I would wear them to school; I always had them on.
I am a simple person, I try to do my best on the pitch and do nothing wrong both on and off the pitch.
I know too well how much I am going to miss football after my career for me to put up my own barriers.
There is one thing that I would really enjoy, and that is, of course, to get 100 Premier League goals.
I have played football since I was five years old. This is my core skill and it will always remain so.
I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.
Some players have ambitions, and therefore, they leave and want to experience something new, you know.
When a Brazilian player comes to England and is successful, he ends up opening doors to other players.
Real are the best club in the world. Any footballer dreams about playing there, and I am no different.
It's all about the qualities of the players. The better the players, the easier it is for the manager.
I don't think there are many jobs that would have tempted me away from Fulham, to be perfectly honest.
When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player.
I don't know of one player who is happy on the bench, especially when you don't understand the reason.
I think more with my head - things are 90 per cent in your head, and everything else comes after that.
I can be the only defensive midfielder and try and break up play. Or I can play a little more forward.
When you're by yourself you have to sort out everything like the shopping and looking after the house.
It's important not to get hung up on the notion that everyone who has an injury is trying to dodge it.
Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better.
You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.
I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.
These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.
If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.
Neymar is growing and is one of those players who invent things. He always has something more to offer.
When I used to see things in the newspapers, going onto the pitch was the best way to get away from it.
What I love so much about being a part of Umbro and the partnership is they authentically let me be me.
I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.
Soccer is always changing and evolving, and I think our national team has had to change with the times.
At the Olympics, I'm representing the United States as well as the town and people who helped shape me.
I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.
Tottenham have impressed me. They haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.
There were other clubs that I had options to go to, but Fulham has always kind of been like home to me.
We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.
From God, I have the strength and intelligence to have alternatives and can live even without football.
I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.
I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again.
I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'
Becoming a culturally intelligent innovators starts with something as basic as exercising self-control.
I like to have fun, but there are moments you need to show yourself, and that, for me, is on the pitch.
I think everybody is born pure. You never go to the maternity ward and hold a baby that has bad energy.