The A tour has always given me an opportunity to prove myself in the higher league as this is the stepping stone.
You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.
In any football I have played in - and I have played in League One and as an international at the World Cup - the bare minimum is running around and showing the desire for the shirt. Then, the higher you go up the leagues, your football takes control of that.
Guys in this league, it depends on the stage you're at in your career, where you've played, situations you've been in - that kind of molds your idea of how you want to play, and where you want to be in this league.
I started lower down the leagues with Coventry, so I'd had that taste of first-team action at a young age. I'd already played 40 or 50 games before moving on, and when I got to Norwich, I had to bide my time at the start.
I started in League One and went up into the Championship and then into the Premier League, so I've played a lot of games from quite a young age.
I think this is where we're trying to get to eventually as a league too hopefully. To have an opportunity to represent and be a leader of a global brand, for me, it was a great decision.
Neil Etheridge in goal and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, they've both come from lower league clubs and done brilliantly.
I played right field in Minor Leagues a lot before I started playing centerfield.
I've been a professional since I was a 17-year-old, over 200 league games from Conference all the way up to the Premier League now, so I think that's experience in itself.
When you do well for a team like Everton, it's easier to go into a top team and establish yourself.
