As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.
My mum says that, when I was a couple of months old and couldn't even stand up yet, I'd try and kick a ball. She knew I'd be into football. Maybe I was just destined to do this.
I can pick up any sport pretty quickly - believe me, I know how to throw a football.
Everything was really competitive. We used to always do field day, relays. Races. I was always just naturally good at those things. So when I started playing football, I used some of those traits.
I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.
In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
I was born to play football. I may have been taught to play but everybody is born for something and I was born to play football.
If you want to be a good shot-blocker, you're going to be a good shot-blocker. It's simple. You can't teach it. You're either good at it, or you're not good at it. If you're good at it, then be really good at it.
