At first it was a bit surreal playing in the Premier League at 16, coming up against world-class players, because it had always been my dream. But quickly, it becomes second nature to you.
It is a great challenge to be playing against the best players in the world, and I always wanted to play in the Premier League and be a part of this league.
You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.
The best league in the world is the Premier League, so I am so happy to be here playing with and against big players.
I'm absolutely enjoying the Premier League, as you can imagine. I knew it was going to be tough. It's the best league in the world and you are up against players who have been in it for years so they know it inside out.
I always had a dream of coming here to play in the Premier League so, for me, it's a dream come true.
Playing week in, week out in the Premier League is massive. You're coming across the best players in the world in probably the best league in the world.
Everyone dreams of playing in the top leagues in Europe and the Premier League is obviously up there. Growing up in England, it's always been a dream of mine to play in the Prem.
The Premier League is one of the top leagues in the world and I'm a guy that likes to challenge myself, so just to be able to practice against those types of players and play against them every weekend is a dream come true.
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
The England team shouldn't be picked on whichever players are in the Premier League when you've got a Premier League player playing in the Championship.
When I was younger I just used to get the ball and take on all the players because I was bigger and stronger. You cannot do that in the Premier League. You are playing against men.
I was one of the first foreign players coming in to the Premier League.
Of course, the best thing, if you play in the Premier League, you can always develop further as a player, and you are playing against the best players. You are also playing game after game all the time, two or three games a week.
When I moved to Hull and I was playing against players in the Premier League, maybe I pinched myself then.
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of.
It's pretty hard to predict anything when talking about the Premier League because of the liabilities the teams and the players have when playing in the Champions League and the other cups, too.