Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.
When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sports. This dream of playing professional soccer probably wasn't the best track for me.
There's more to life than basketball, and at some point, it's going to end anyway.
I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would have been a tragedy.
Away from football, life is not just football. People do not see it how life goes on for us off the field.
I understand that football is only a certain time in my life, and my degree will help me sustain my life well past football.
There's more to life than the National Football League.
I know there's life after the Olympics.
I did GCSE's and A-levels. I did my finals after the Lions tour in 2009 to get my law degree. So I've always had an eye on life beyond playing, irrelevant of the period in my career.
Leaving a legacy beyond just playing football has become extremely important to me.
I'm not a football player 24 hours a day.
Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.
