You need to know exactly where to be on the pitch at all times.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Whether I play five or 10 metres forward or back does not change my way of playing, to be on the ball a lot.
The number one thing is to catch the football and maintain possession.
I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped.
For Argentina I'm a central midfielder. Always have been and always will be.
Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.
Deco is a very skillful player. He thinks very fast on the pitch.
I'm pretty confident in my ability to get out of the pocket, be fast and run on the field.
Football is a very instinctual game, and it's very fast-paced.
After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.
I like to play with my back to the goal, but my colleagues have to tell me when I'm alone or how much room I have so I can choose to pass or to go straight for the goal.
I think you have to have a high football IQ. Obviously, you have to have the physical ability to run fast and get open. But you also have to have a high football IQ.
There are a lot of running backs who see the first level, the D-linemen, and they can't really see the second level.
I'm more conscious of where the outfielders are playing when I'm on base, and I don't take such wide turns anymore running around the bases. I'm still learning.
I know if I'm playing centre-back, there are certain places where you don't give your full-back the ball - because I've been the full-back!
Whatever happens, if I don't make any plays that game, hopefully I can have an effect where I'm distracting two or three blockers, or I'm getting my hands up so I can bat down balls.
While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.
It's not just about showing people what you can do on the ball in those wider positions, it's about gaining the full understanding of each position and what it takes to get that spot.
I like to play anywhere in the middle.
I'd like to think that centre-half is my best position.
With the quarterback position, because you're touching the ball every single snap, you want to make a play and you just have to guard against that. It's about making the plays that come to you, not necessarily chasing after plays.
I'm kind of like the quarterback: being able to orchestrate a lot of things out there on the field and being able to run different schemes and coverages.
Guys like Bryce Treggs, Chris Harper, Kenny Lawler, Darius Powe, Richard Rodgers, Jackson Bouza. All those guys are incredible. They run great routes and have great hands.
I've got to be smarter with the football.
