I'm a defender first and foremost, and if I'm playing right centre-half, I am even more of a defender than the wing-backs.
I am a product of an amalgamation of different teachers. If it was just one teacher, even just my father, I would be half the player that I am today.
I have a good relationship with Mandela. But I am not Mandela's product. I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.
I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.
I think I am a good help defender as well as just bringing a lot of communication to the floor.
I am competitively aggressive. My dream since I was a young boy was to be an NFL quarterback. I am living that dream.
I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.
When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.
Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.
My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.
I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.