When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.

You never sit on your laurels. It is always a case of trying to work on your deficiencies as much as working on your strengths.

Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.'

The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.

I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.