Chelsea legend Frank Lampard hasn't yet decided whether he will retire after this MLS season.
Lampard is preparing for his second season at New York City FC.
"I don't know yet whether this will be my last year as a player," Lampard told the Mail on Sunday. "But whether it is or not, I don't want to go out with a whimper. I could rely on the Chelsea thing and think that was great and take the wrong attitude about what this is. I haven't done that. Anyone who knows me knows that I have a real desire. I am very driven to do as well as I can.
"I would hate to go home with the feeling I haven't done it because it was something to do with me. If I didn't give it the right attitude and then came away without being successful, I would hate that.
"I have learnt that the minute I drop my standards - and I have done at times in my career, taking my foot off the pedal in training or getting over-confident - I have always been kicked up the backside somehow.
"I know the minute I drop, that kick up the backside comes. I have got no doubt about it that if I drop at 37, it will come. So I am taking this season full on. I have to adapt. I can't train as hard as I used to. But I will give everything.
"I wouldn't enjoy being here on a holiday. I'm not that kind of bloke. I would feel like I was taking the p***. The people here are very good. The team-mates around you, the club, the supporters, we were getting nearly 30,000 a week as a new franchise. It's a big deal.
"I would hate to know inside I was taking it as a holiday. It would be the beginning of the end. You might as well not be here. I don't need it in terms of my own career. I've had a very good career. I need it because I want it.
"Why do I still want it? Because I still feel I have something left to give. I didn't want to finish playing and think: There was an experience to be had there and I didn't take it'. I've always been like that. I could have stopped when I left Chelsea and known that I'd had a really good career and had no regrets but I wanted to push it."
