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I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.
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I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.
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Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
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In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.
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You cannot get involved in debate on 'MOTD'. You can do it on Sky because they've got hours and hours. We've got a couple of minutes. It's a very disciplined show. Our primary purpose is to show the action, and the analysis is very secondary. We have lots of people who would prefer no analysis. We have lots of people who would prefer more analysis.
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Basically, Walkers are putting real produce into their flavours, so the cheese and onion flavour is actually cheese and onion rather than just flavourings.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.