My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

I manage every player as well as I possibly can, regardless of which club they're from, what their roots are.

I want my players to enjoy playing football and not be scarred by the experiences.

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

I think it's always difficult to go against people with big match experience in finals.

Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and who isn't.

For me, it is all about the bigger picture and what is right for England. I haven't enjoyed watching us play in all our games, but away in Germany, against Spain and Germany at home, I've enjoyed the performance.

Very often, you can go into one game and do really well, and then you have to find that level of performance so quickly again.

If we want to be a top team, we can't get to 3-0 and suddenly decide not to play without the ball. We have to play with intelligence right through the game.

We want to win every game of football we go into. I don't know how we would go into a game not wanting to win and not wanting to play well.

I've got to think through all of those things - competition for places, players who need match minutes, and keeping the unity of the squad.

I don't think, when you are involved with England, you can ever write any game or tournament off - that wouldn't be acceptable.

I expect all the players, even the younger ones, to show leadership in their own way.

You're always loath to take a player off of his ability.

My brain acts bizarrely and I keep having major mood swings.

This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.

Everything I do, I do it being myself.

Wherever I am in my life, it's because rugby has enabled me to do that.

I was able to come out as gay publicly because my family had accepted me. They thought nothing of it, and without them I wouldn't have been able to do it. If I didn't have them in my life I would have felt like I had no one.

My father always pretends to hate Christmas. But when we were children he was the first one waking us up, saying: 'Do you think Father Christmas has been yet?'

My sport was my comfort. The routine, the camaraderie, the team... everyone's around you. After rugby you're on your own.

If you add children to a marriage, they bring a different dimension to the relationship. If I'd had a child and I believed it would have made my child's life better by not coming out, the chances are I wouldn't have done it. Because I think you do whatever it takes to make your child happy.

Part of a sportsman's job is taking banter from the crowd.

I'm not going on a crusade but I'm proud of who I am. I feel I have achieved everything I could ever possibly have hoped to achieve out of rugby and I did it being gay. I want to send a positive message to other gay people that they can do it, too.

You cannot afford to take any risks where your health is concerned.

I knew I was gay at 18, but to come out then would have meant I would not have achieved what I did in rugby. I loved rugby so much and it was so important to me that I made the decision to keep my sexuality secret. People may disagree with that, but it was my belief and my decision.

There are times in my life when I've wanted never to exist. There's times you don't want to go back to.

Toulouse opened my eyes as a player and as a person. I returned to Wales 10 times better for the experience. I admit that when I went there I was not life-savvy: I was a wild child who lived life instinctively. I would walk past a building and not even notice it.

I became the master of playing the straight bat - I would go to bars with the boys, I would always be the one to start a fight, to be outrageous and drink the most. I even went to the extreme of marrying the perfect woman for me.

There are excuses for dropping the ball or missing a tackle. But there are no excuses for not playing with a passion for your team-mates and as long as I get that response and they play well, I'll be happy.

I know that my parents sacrificed a hell of a lot to make sure that my brothers and I would have all that we needed.

Every gay man will tell you that 'coming out' is like a weight lifted from your shoulders and beng able to walk down the street knowing that there is nothing for me to hide has been a liberating experience.

I hate driving.

I'm a sportsman, as good and strong as you, who just happens to be gay.

All I'm concerned about is that I'm with a good squad of players and want us to be competitive and I'm not looking for anything more.

When I got married to my ex-wife, Jemma, I took my vows very, very seriously. I've been brought up with good values and I don't go into anything thinking: this is just for the sake of it - it's not going to last.

If I hadn't had the rugby field to get rid of my aggression I would have been locked up a long time ago.

If you can't give 100% to rugby then you can't do it justice.

You could say I'm the pioneer in the way I have changed some people's perception of not only sports people but of gay men in general. It's also important that people also realise that as much as a pioneer I'm also just a normal person. I'm normal but I've done something that's pretty powerful as well.

I'm terrible for road rage.

I think what I want to learn more than anything... is that, I've got HIV and it's OK, like. That's what I want to learn more than anything.

You tell that to people until you are blue in the face and they struggle to believe it, but I am being totally truthful when I say that all that matters to me is Wales winning.

I am not interested in individual glory.

When I first started at Bridgend, I'd see the amount of work Rob Howley put in on his own after the team had all gone home. He was doing ridiculous amounts. So I started training like him. Always on my own.

It's too easy to forget bad things. By keeping the reminders close, it's the reminder of not just who you are, but how you became what you are.

I want to be a good person.

It has always been my ambition to be captain of Wales over a sustained period of time.

When you cross the whitewash, you only think about the present.

It was a huge honour to be chosen by the Lions and to lead the side, but the greatest of all is to represent your country and win.

There are days when I wake up and do not know who I am any more.