When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it's 10 years at West Ham, you're leading the team out every week, when you sit back and really think about it, it's very rare.
My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.
I think playing for England is the pinnacle of every young English player's career.
I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake.
I love playing football. I always look at it as there's a lot worse things you can be doing than coming into a training ground in the morning and playing footy and having a laugh with the boys.
We're not robots, we're not factory built. We have feelings, we have families and we go through tough times that people don't know about. Sometimes your form isn't good and there's a reason for that. Sometimes the team isn't playing well and you can't quite work out why.
My biggest problem, when I was younger and when things weren't going so well, I was so enthusiastic, so anxious to make things better that I used to get myself in trouble.
Obviously when you grow up in the area you love playing on the street, and to go from playing on the street with my mates to playing at Upton Park is a bit surreal, and 15 years on to still be in the heart of the West Ham midfield is quite good going!
When you're 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence - it's really down to really wanting to make that run.
Refs won't get everything right but those decisions really hurt teams.
I watch a lot of football and you hardly ever see Premier League players go down with cramp. The fitness, the intensity of Premier League football is phenomenal.
I'm as passionate as the fans, I want West Ham to do well whether I'm in the team or not.
I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.
When I was a youngster, my dream was to play in the first team. I was constantly thinking, 'Will I make a career in football? Am I going to have to go out and get a job?'
When results go against you, that's when you really test how good you are as a team.
To accumulate almost 500 games in a decade and a half means I'm averaging more than 30 per season and I'm proud of that.
I'm really not convinced I want to be a manager at all. Managers are just wide open to abuse.
I was at Arsenal as an 11-year-old. I really enjoyed it but I was at school and my dad used to drive me there after work. Sometimes we were in traffic for two hours. They wanted to keep me but I wasn't getting home until nearly 11 P. M. I loved it there but it wasn't right, so I came to West Ham and haven't looked back.
I was walking along somewhere in the Maldives and there were West Ham fans there. It's crazy.
In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.
