No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.
Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been a virgin.
If I wasn't a footballer, I would be a virgin
I was here at Spurs as a kid, too, and I cleaned David Ginola and David Howells boots. I got a nice tip of £60 from each of them at Christmas. Howells was quick to give me this but I had to ask Les Ferdinand to explain to Ginola about our boot etiquette and the tradition of tipping at Christmas. Everyone wanted to clean Les Ferdinand s boots because he was the best tipper. He gave out £100 one year.
I've got my own targets. . . To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.
I usually wear moulded boots for training, but I mainly wear studs in matches unless it s really dry.
On a matchday, I like tie-up my right boot on the pitch before kick-off. I ll tie my laces in the changing room, walk out and then untie my right boot and tie it up again. It s one of those things - I ve always done it! I do it before every match.
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.
It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.
I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.
I don't want to be a victim.