I had a lot of ups and downs through my career at BYU, through different injuries and stuff. The fan bases have always been right there to pick me up and support me through all those injuries.
As athletes, we're always trained to play through stuff. And I've played through all types of injuries - ankle sprains, shoulder, whatever - and with the brain it's just different.
I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.
I've played through a lot of injuries before, as a young kid through high school.
I've been through seasons where I've not played a lot of games, and its been difficult due to injuries and stuff like that.
I've been through a lot in my career. I've been through the ups, I've been through the downs. I've been through the highs and the lows.
I've played in a lot of different roles through the course of my career and I've been a starter for a lot of those years and the mentality can never change.
To be honest, from England Under-16s, through the 17s and 18s, really all the way through my youth career, I played at centre-half. For some reason, when I made my debut at Everton, I just played in central midfield, and it went from there.
If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.
I've been through trades, having different coaches, everything under the sun.
I've been through a lot with injuries and I kind of know the process, I know what it takes to get back and I've been through the rehab stages before.
Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'
When I go speak to these kids through my foundation and am able to sit down and tell them some of the things that I've been through, they can look up and relate to me, and they can understand the feelings I had that are similar to what they're going through and feeling.
All players go through injuries in their career, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
It's one thing to play through injuries, quite another to play well through injuries.
That's probably the biggest difference from a hamstring to different injuries. You can play through pain with other injuries. But as I found out quickly with a hamstring, if you're feeling any pain, eventually, it's not going to work.