“Pre-season is warm-up for the season so if you can do it in pre-season...” — Michail Antonio Quote

Pre-season is warm-up for the season so if you can do it in pre-season then you can do it in the season. So it's always better to go out there and give it your all, get your fitness and make sure you perform, because obviously sometimes managers take performances in pre-season to decide if you're going to start the first game of the season.

I was semipro at Tooting & Mitcham. They paid the tax and we got paid cash in hand. I told my mum, 'I'm getting paid to play football' and she took half of my wages. So of my very first paycheque, my mum got half of it. I call it 'mummy tax.'

Anything is possible in life.

Obviously scoring goals in pre-season is good to help you bring it into the season, but the most important thing is doing it in the Premier League, doing it in the Europa League and doing it when it actually matters.

Actors normally go to the gym to achieve a certain kind of fitness for a role but when you start playing a sport, then you realise that being athletically fit is a very different kind of fitness.

I love doing my fitness drills and work on my skill level.

I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard.

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

There are 50 people fitter than me between the top 70 to 150 in the world. There are some players not as fit as me inside the top 10 in the world. Will fitness help them? I don't think so.