For me, it is easy. Scoring a last-minute, game-winning goal, securing a hard-fought three points on the road, returning to a jubilant dressing room, or if you are very lucky, winning and celebrating a championship. The feeling that courses through your body when these events take place is like no other. It is like a drug. Once you have had a taste, you are always chasing your next hit.

Joe Cole, my teammate here in Tampa Bay, has won every honor the English game has to offer, yet he is as motivated as anybody to win a USL Championship in what may be his last season as a professional. Like every other pro, he wants that feeling of achievement, elation, togetherness and pride - plus all the other spine-tingling emotions you feel in those special moments just once more.

What makes these moments even better is the people that you get to share them with. When I get asked my favorite aspect of being a professional footballer, I have to say it’s the people I have met along the way that I can now call friends. When you achieve something together as a team, there is a bond that is formed between players and staff that can never be broken.

I was invited to Jody Craddock’s testimonial dinner with the rest of the Wolves 2008 title-winning team a few years ago, and there were many players there that hadn’t seen each other in a few years. As soon as we were all together, there was an energy amongst the group that can’t be bought. The banter was flying back and forth as if we had never been away. We had been through the highs and lows together and managed to come out on top. The respect every player has for each other is immense. These are bonds that will last a lifetime.