My family, my friends, and skiing... thats it for me, thats my life. The joy I get from skiing, thats worth dying for.
I think there are a lot of outside interests that would like to see Sarah Palin in some form of elected office. Most in Alaska recognize our former governor is really not involved in or engaged in the state anymore, that she's moved to other interests.
For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.
But also outside of football, with the family, the most important is to settle down, to have everything good outside with school, etc.
People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.
You have to sacrifice time with your family, your time as a teenager. You don't experience life like any other, outside of football. When you go to uni, you can't live the uni lifestyle. But I've never, ever thought about quitting football.
I discovered and fell in love with skiing long before I started to climb. Skiing was really my first calling. As a kid, I grew up skiing in jeans in Minnesota.
I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.
In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.
If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.
Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
I thought I was prepared for England but I was not prepared for things outside football, my private life. I am not very proud that fans could probably name three of my former girlfriends. I don't think it damaged my football results. But my image outside football it damaged, yes.
I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.