"People might say I'm a fool for not staying on and being an English Premier League winner, but that is the way it goes. You can't have everything in life. I still feel good physically and mentally, but everything has its time. Now I'm going to play against Drogheda in the Uefa Cup qualifying, but so what? That's part of it.
"Part of the whole thing. I wish I could play football till I was 100 but that is not going to be the case. It's quite a big strain on your body when you train and when you play that much and when you get older it's not as easy as when you are 21. Then you could turn up the next day and play another game. I couldn't do that today. You need a longer time to recuperate. Coming home to Sweden, enjoying playing football, having my friends around, see them more often, don't miss the birthdays, don't miss the weddings, because you have to go and play a game.
"Hopefully I have another 40 or 50 years to live and you want to be able to do that in full. Not being sore anywhere, waking up in the morning and feeling that you can't get out of bed. That's not life. I want to be able to go and play some football with my son when I stop playing. I want to be able to go out and play some golf with my friends or play tennis without having to take some pills or whatever."
"The 10 weeks I did at Manchester was a great experience football-wise and it was something I wouldn't want to change, but it was difficult to stay that long away from the family, even though they travelled to Manchester and I came back over here. It's still not the same, so it's something that I don't think will happen again, but I'm not going to say no 100%, because people would then say I was lying if it did happen. I said 'no' in the past and then I said 'yes', and it comes back to haunt you. I don't see it happening, but you never know."