Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.

I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.

Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

You have to believe in yourself. Belief is one of the biggest things in football. If you believe you can win the Premier League then of course it can happen.

If you start thinking about stats it can get too complicated and you just have to go out there and play your game.

I always try to enjoy the game. It is easy to say but it's true. Every game is different, sometimes you feel better inside you but you have to enjoy your game.

I think you have to play your own game and sometimes people don't realise that the play-maker runs the most kilometres on the pitch!

One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.

I can imagine playing in America.

Give time, give space to sprout your potential. Awaken the beauty of your heart – the beauty of your spirit. There are infinite possibilities.

You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

I might have to commute. You know, left field, DH, wherever.

The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.

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