With the ball I can run 37kmh but I've never been timed without it because my job is to play football. I'm not an athlete.
People said I'm too big to play football.
You play football to go out there and win - that's the bottom line.
People said: 'You're too big to play football,' but I kept playing and it just happened that people have caught on to me and taken to me. The nicest thing I get from it is that I can be myself and people seem to like it.
I was raised on an estate in an inner city school where people had a go about my size, people saying I am too big to play football - which still happens today - and I used that to inspire me.
As long as I am feeling good I will play football. As long as I am feeling fit, strong and being affective on and off the pitch, I will play the game I love.
In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.
Some people admire the aspirational rock star figures whose biopics make it to TV, the people they watched as kids and made them want to play football for England. For some comics, it is often the Doug Stanhopes and the Joan Rivers.
In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.
