I used to think that if someone gained their weight back, it was my fault, but all I can do is be God's motivator and try to instill the motivation in others so they do it themselves.
Didier Drogba has been an inspiration to all of us in the Ivory Coast national team. He is a great motivator for all of us - and some of the talks he gives are like a president trying to motivate his country. It is not just what he does on the field - but also all he does for all of our people off the field.
I try to be an example for guys who first come into the league of how you can have a huge impact off the field and on the field. For me, I'm going to continue to try to do that.
I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.
I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.
I dream big. I think big. I try to go out and do it as big as I can.
When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.
I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.
I try to stay clean on the field and off the field.
I think fear is a very healthy motivator.
Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
If you are going to do something, you have to do it for yourself, and that's what I try to do. I try to be authentic and try to be original, so that's what I try to be. A lot of people try to build big brands but have received bad advice, and they don't try to be authentic and real with themselves.
I personally think going to Mars, if it takes two years or two and a half years, that's doable. Certainly, the first people who go there, that's going to be a big motivator, being first getting to Mars.
But my instinct as a football player is always to try and grow and try and improve and I think I can do this by joining a big club such as Manchester City.