Playing for England is always the main priority.
Your primary job is to be a football player, and you've got to accomplish that task before you go out and do anything else, really.
Football is my priority. It's a short career, and you have to make the most of it, which is why making the World Cup squad is such a big deal and something I will never take for granted.
I went to college to play football, not to study it.
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
I have a life next to football.
Football comes first, but I want to be an actor eventually.
Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.
For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.
We want to see football. If people want to see acting, they go somewhere else, not the stadium.
