"I am a brutally honest person. So I will let you in on a little secret. Since I was a boy, I’ve always been extremely quiet, extremely shy. Didn’t have a PlayStation. Didn’t have many close friends. The way that I expressed myself was through football, and I was very content with that. When I’m playing football, everything is good. If you want to call it an obsession, then maybe it is my obsession.
Quite simply, it is my life."