You're playing football for a living. There aren't many things better than that.
I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.
I am going to be a professional soccer player.
I am full time athlete.
I'm a professional footballer, and I get paid for doing my job.
Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.
It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.
This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.
I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
My wife, Olivia, always thought I was one day going to go into coaching. But after playing until I was 37, I didn't want to subject my family to that nomad life. I think I definitely could have done it.
I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
I think I could take a job as an NFL scout.
I don't know about any others, but coaching basketball is the only thing I can do.
I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.
The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.
I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
I'm just happy I get paid to train every day and play football. I can't ask more than that.
A lot of parents today come forward to encourage their daughters to take up sport because they feel women's cricket is growing in India and they can make a profession out of it.
I am paid to play, and the coaches are paid to plan, and that is what they have to do.
Being athletic has really become a big part of my career.
