Nasser Hussain was skipper when I first played for England and a massive influence. He showed me a lot of faith.
The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.
Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality.
In the past, I bowled at players like Michael Atherton, Alec Stewart, Nasser Hussain, Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick.
When you are no longer England captain, you suddenly realise it's over, you are no longer England captain, and you appreciate what you had.
In my early music-loving days, I thought Beethoven was a bit bombastic, a bit heroic, a bit, well, big.
I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
I'm in such a privileged position to class football as my full-time job, to be captain of England, captain of Manchester City. I'm very lucky.
Getting the opportunity to captain England is a huge honour - even if it's only the once you can still say 'yeah, I've captained England.'
I think the FA wished I was white. I had the credibility, performance-wise, to be captain. I was consistently in the heart of the defence and I was a club captain early on my career.
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
I have some NASA memorabilia from the early Apollo days that I can't imagine parting with. I've always wanted to play sort of like a space cowboy, too, like the idea of Captain Kirk. I think that's everybody's dream though, right?
If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.
To go back to visit the early days with Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, when she was the dance captain of 'How to Succeed,' and finding them again 25 years later and working with them on 'Charity.' That was really great fun.