Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode

you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.

All of them will come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter,

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I think from Denmark I have the humble side working hard being really humble because us Danes, how can you say, we shouldn't think too big of ourselves, we have to be like really humble but of course the American side which I have for my bad I think I have this

mentality of dreaming big everything is possible in life you just have to go and chase it and my

dad he always used to tell me all those things when I was young but he also used to

tell me that it's going to be really hard and he told me how I had to be better than everyone else growing up.

My dad was really tough at me from a really young age and I didn't,

when I was a kid I didn't really understand why I didn't understand why is my dad like this I used to I used to to run crying to my mom you know there was this great balance the hard dad and then the soft mom I could run to and sometimes I used to think like do my dad don't like me or what's going on.

But after I got older, I start to realize what he had done.

And my dad is my best friend.

And I've just seen like, I don't feel the pressure now.

After all those moments I think as a kid when you're trying to get the acceptance from your parents

that's the biggest pressure you can play with actually and if that don't break you it makes you so

from a young age as to play with the pressure to satisfy my dad also because he would be really

angry at me if I didn't play good or if I didn't give my all if he felt I didn't give my all he would be really really

angry at me. So from a really young age I learned that when I played I had to give

100%. I couldn't I couldn't hold back and I think that those moments it has helped me a lot in my career.

Martin as a parent myself, what you got did it, I'm not going to call it daring, but there's a risk because

imagine he saw you as a kid thinking, does my dad not love me because he's taking a he knows what he's doing and he knows that the benefits will only come probably when you're a young man or even a more mature man and he's hoping that we'll be close friends then my son will see the benefits

there but at a time where you're not sure of his affection because he's being

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