Celebrity focus - Simon Davies
What do you miss most about being away from Pembrokeshire? My friends and family and Solva. It's a beautiful place and my home. I also miss playing golf at St Davids golf course.
Where in west Wales would you most like to escape to away from the pressures of Premiership football, and why? Solva, it's my home, I know everyone and I can just get away from any pressures and it's a more relaxed way of life there.
What is your greatest achievement? Becoming a premiership footballer and playing for my country.
What was your biggest disappointment? Being injured and unable to play for Wales in the Euro 2004 play-offs against Russia.
Who is your biggest inspiration, and why? My mum and dad, they sacrificed a lot for me to be able to be where I am today.
Who is the best player you have played with, and the best player you have played against? The best players I have played with would be Ryan Giggs with Wales and Teddy Sheringham at Tottenham - I couldn't choose between the two. The best player I have played against would be Ronaldinhio. I was playing for Wales in a friendly against Brazil and even though he didn't have the best game he had this aura about him. He's such a skillful and talented footballer.
What has life been like since you became a professional footballer? Very rewarding. Scoring goals and playing in front of large crowds - it's what I dreamed of as a kid. It's everything and more than I imagined it would be.
There are major highs and lows in a footballing career and the injuries are the worst part of it. I had a 15- month period a few years ago when I just couldn't shake off injuries and it was an unbelievably low point.
It's the World Cup Final - Wales V England (we can dream) - and it's gone down to penalties.
Would you take one?
Would you be confident? I would want to take one if it was the World cup final against England! But I would want to be the fifth penalty taker. I took a penalty in a semi-final of a quite important tournament when I was 16 and I missed. I have never taken one since.
Penalties can make you a hero or a villain and the pressure is immense.
And finally...
If you were hosting a dinner party, who would you invite and why? Tiger Woods - he is a sporting genius, Robert De Niro, Ricky Gervais to provide some entertainment and the beautiful Angelina Jolie.
If you were stuck on a desert island, what five items could you not live without? My Ipod and mobile phone, a DVD player and some DVDs, a good book - it would probably be a sporting autobiography, and a golf club and ball.
If you were Prime Minister for the day what law would you impose and why? I would make a law that, for that day, everyone had a bank holiday and didn't have to go to work.
3:06pm Friday 20th April 2007
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