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.
Mark Noble
At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.
You have to take the good with the bad and if you have to play over Christmas you have to. We have a good life and playing football over Christmas is not the worst thing in the world.
I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.
My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.
To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it - it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.
I think playing for England is the pinnacle of every young English player's career.
I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.
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.
You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don't, suddenly from the fans it's, 'You're not good enough to play for our football club.'
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.
Refs won't get everything right but those decisions really hurt teams.
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 results go against you, that's when you really test how good you are as a team.
I'm English, I've always wanted to play for England but it's out of my hands.
I know Billy Bonds quite well and he is a fantastic person and was a fantastic player.
I always give 100% in every game I play, even if it's not enough.
It's a fear of failure which drives me on.
I never blame the refs as I know how tough it is, how fast the play goes, how difficult it is to keep up with the play.
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.
I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.
I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake.
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.
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.
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.
I'm as passionate as the fans, I want West Ham to do well whether I'm in the team or not.
I was walking along somewhere in the Maldives and there were West Ham fans there. It's crazy.
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?'
I always wanted to be one of the best players in the world like Zinedine Zidane, so it was great that I ended up playing at West Ham against some of the best players in the world.
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.
Don't get me wrong, I love training and I love playing but everyday life? People see the money and the material things that footballers have but you get to a Premier League level because you have something inside you and you can play. Ninety per cent of that is self-pride.
I don't think I will fully appreciate it until I have retired. My dad will ring me after a game and if we've lost it's the end of the world for me but he will say: 'I don't think you realise - you are captain of West Ham, you grew up supporting the club.'
I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.
Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'
I ended up buying a van to chuck all my fishing gear in because I couldn't keep using my car.
Players such as Scholes and Gerrard, Ryan Giggs and Jamie Carragher have consistently performed at the top level and played hundreds of games. It's fantastic, I'd love that. But you never know what's round the corner.
You can't play man to man against Liverpool and out-pass them. You have to keep your shape and stop them.
You want to play in the Premier League, full stop. You don't want to play in the Championship. I've played there and I don't want to play there again for West Ham.
I played at White Hart Lane against Michael Carrick and Edgar Davids when I was 18.
If you want to pay money for an English talent you pay way over the odds. You get players from abroad really cheap.
I want to score but when you think of the soldiers in Iraq with bullets flying around their heads you realise a penalty isn't something to get too worried about.
I've just always got on with people older than me for some reason.
I feel a lot older than I am.
Football is a game of moments now and if someone does four step-overs, they've had an incredible game. That's not something I do.
It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players. We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.
I don't think I'm a bad egg.
The way the Premier League is now we have a lot of foreign players. A lot of very good foreign players.
If I'm on my way to play a round of golf there is an anxiety in me, a feeling of 'I can't lose today.'
