If I wasn't a footballer, I would be a virgin
It's not easy to be on a diet when you play for Napoli - the food is really good.
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.
Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
My life is 24 hours talking about football. For me, it is every conversation, every action. It is my life, my passion.
I loved football even before I married a quarterback; it's not for every woman, but I like it.
Life in the NFL is an adjustment.
I wanted to be completely and totally entrenched, immersed in this football life, this culture all the way, so you don't even have a thought, an inkling, that my mind is somewhere else.
People just do not realise what a football life can be. Since 1968 I've never had more than a few weeks out of work, when I left Sheffield United and I have not had a Christmas.
We all like a party but when that 'becomes the main feature of your lifestyle as a footballer, I haven't got time for that.
At the end of the day, we love playing football, so that is the main thing. I am doing something that I really love to do. It is a job, but it is a hobby as well.
If I'm not playing football, I'm preparing to play football. That's kind of how I kind of view my life.
