Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge.
In France, it's easy to know which team is going to win the game, whereas in England, anywhere you play, you know it's going to be difficult.
I'm not going to say something I shouldn't. In that way, I was probably the perfect guy to play in New England.
Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.
I want to challenge myself. I'm desperate to play in the Premier League, and I want to play for England.
Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.
I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that.
It's cool to challenge myself to learn new things as opposed to going to play basketball in the park for millionth time.
I mean, I love New England. But after 10 years and winning three Super Bowls, something inside was telling me that I was ready for a new challenge. And I thought I might have to go elsewhere to find it.
I'm looking forward to the new challenge that playing T20 cricket in England will bring.
As far as I know, I'm not going to the jungle anytime soon. Unless it's one of those shows where you don't know you're going to be on it and they just kidnap you for one night.
I made my England debut when I was 17, against India. I was the first Asian to play for the England women's team, and I did have mixed feelings playing against the country my parents are from but I was born and bred in England and I've always known I wanted to play for my country.
In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.
Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.
I could play, scored a goal; I showed that I can play in Europe, in England. Because many say that England is very difficult.
Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.