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Obviously, I'm a competitor. I think everybody knows that. Everybody knows what I'm about and how I play football.

I had two offers coming out of high school in football and with more resources and things like that it could have been 20.

The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and there's shoe polish all over businesses and stores. Everyone rallies around you.

During the off-season I do a lot of ball drills, whether if it's with a football, or sometimes I will do eye-hand coordination with tennis balls. I throw a tennis ball against the wall and try to chase it. Like a cat-and-mouse with a tennis ball. I think that's where I get my eye-hand coordination.

The music I like or the football teams I like or the food I eat has nothing to do with me being black.

Luka was always stretching. That's maybe why he's supple and extremely flexible. You can tell from the way he moves with a football. He was very professional and used to eat particularly well. He was always in the gym, doing little extras.

Although I was prepared to stop playing for the greater good of my health, I was fortunate to find out that playing football wasn't making me ill.

I recognise the power of football, the power of a name like Manchester United.

I'm a big fan of Scottish football. I want the league to do well and I think it's a fantastic product that we don't sell it well enough.

There were others who could control, pass and shoot the ball as good as me but I think football is played in your head.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

There's so many politics and whatever in football.

Even though I feel very privileged to play football, with the things I have experienced within the game, it is not something I would be shouting from the rooftops, to recommend to people's children to be footballers. Because there are a lot of things that happen on a day-to-day basis at club football that I wouldn't wish on anybody.

It is the best job in the world, don't get me wrong. But people seem to think there are no other issues within football, you just get your money at the end of the month and play every weekend.

There is so much more to football than what people may see on Saturday and I don't believe in hiding that from people.

I am not playing football just for the fun of it. I want to win things.

There's not just playing on a Saturday and you receiving your money at the end of the month. There's so, so much more to football than what people see. My agent told me when I was 15, 16, 'you can have all the ability in the world but if you're not mentally strong enough football will swallow you up.'

How can you go from a free-flowing football game for 90 minutes to stopping for one or two minutes for a decision?

When I said I wanted to walk away from football, people think I was just talking about the two or three incidents that have happened on the pitch.

I don't want to play football for 15 years and not have one trophy or one medal. Sorry, that's not what I am about. I wouldn't be happy with that.

Foreign managers, sometimes it'll take them time to adapt or for the players to adapt to them. It's something that is just one of those things in football.