I admit to becoming frustrated by the frequency of diving in the Champions League.
First of all, I think it is not easy to win a title in the Premier League, as you have really good teams here.
I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer.
I've said it once: I would love to someday play in La Liga at one of the greats. I see their league each week. It suits my style.
I would welcome sitting for a year. Being able to experience what the NFL is like, settling into a new city. You get a house situated, there's marketing, there's stuff going on you're not used to. Being able to have a year to learn the offense, learn the speed of the game, and coming out in Year 2, you could focus all on football.
I've always dreamed of playing in the World Cup and wearing the Selecao jersey, but I knew how difficult that was, what with me playing in Ukraine for Shakhtar.
My failures were something for me - my first contact with professional football. Though it didn't go all that well, it's not a regret, it's just like that. But looking back, those failures helped me consider football differently, consider the professional game differently.
The more versatile you can be, the longer you'll be in the NFL.
When I played for Hannover I had several offers, also - as I have been told - from Hamburg, Bremen and Bayern. Back then I already was a German international and Bayern would have loved to have the complete German national team.
When you look at role models, you tend to look at players who have played at the highest level, your Viv Andersons and so on.
Do I like most footballers? Not really. Joe Hart, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Joleon Lescott, Gabby Agbonlahor and a group of the guys at Villa - good people.
I didn't really have a plan B. My plan B was work harder and try to make it in the NFL, and that's what I want to do. I put everything I had into making it in this league, and that's why I'm here.
I am competitively aggressive. My dream since I was a young boy was to be an NFL quarterback. I am living that dream.
I dabbled in football myself until the age of 14, but I didn't have as much love for the sport as I did track and field. I would never have been good enough to take it to the highest level.
People say I should go to Real Madrid or Barcelona, but my team is Las Palmas.
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
My love of wine happened organically while being in Napa Valley during training camp while playing for the Oakland Raiders in the 90s.
It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players. We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.
The Champions League is massive. I've had so much experience. I'm only 23, and yet I've played so much in the Champions League, and not many players my age would have had that experience.
I didn't make the Pro Bowl until my seventh year I think in the NFL. We continually got better.
When I was young, I always wanted to play in the Champions League.
I never had a job. My first job was quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens.
The way I played, Tottenham was the best phase of my career. It's always a warm feeling when I think back.
I'm in such a privileged position to class football as my full-time job, to be captain of England, captain of Manchester City. I'm very lucky.
It is very exciting to be playing in the Champions League because it is the dream of every player in the world.
