I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.

As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

Money has never been a huge inspiration for me.