As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.
Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.
As a footballer you're committed to play for the badge, train alongside fantastic players daily and compete against some of the game's best every weekend. What more can you ask for.
If you go out once a week, they can blast on you that you're always out all the time, but I always put work first, and people sometimes don't see the side of going into the weight room, behind-the-scenes-type stuff with football.
I'm delighted to extend my contract and commitment to Paris Saint-Germain.
I've got belief that the Newcastle fans know how much I want to play for them.
These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
I had to decide if I was going to try a junior college or walk on somewhere. I even thought about changing sports. But I eventually decided that football was my passion.
As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.
I got my first football when I was two and played my first proper game before I was five. So nothing else was ever an option!
I will always do what's best for the football team.
My head is in Liverpool and on helping save our season. I am professional and I always fulfil my deals. I haven't considered leaving, although in football that depends on the club.
I am fully committed to Ohio State, the football program, as long as I can.
I am an Arsenal player and I don't think about anything else. I'm not going to say no to anybody, nor am I going to say yes to anybody. I did not say that I was going to leave Arsenal to go to Barcelona, because equally Barcelona doesn't want me.
I'm going to keep loving football. That's one thing I'm most proud of: my hunger and desire for the game has not stopped.
To play for Arsenal will be the best day of my life and I will do anything to play for that team.
I'm proud of being a Nigerian international and am always committed to playing for my country.
Football has always been in my blood. It's more than just an occupation, but as you get a little bit older and wiser, you want to be able to pick and choose and make sure you get the right club at the right time.
You get injuries, but football is something you have in your blood, in your heart.
If you're happy being at a big club but playing reserve team football, I never really understand that.
I'd say my focus is on the season, my focus is on making the Colts the best team in the NFL. I'm completely engaged and have always been engaged, even when I was in rehab.
I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
I always thought we ought to recognise the blood, sweat and tears - and the sacrifices in being away from home - of former England players, and that current players should know what has come before.
I have made mistakes and just have to live with it, but at the end of the day, I just want to play football.
Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp's coming.
