Of course, people are going to criticise when things aren't going well. As players, we have to take on responsibility and prove people wrong.

You are always having to prove something in football whether you are flying or not.

In my opinion, there is no better place to be for a footballer than Liverpool.

I want to improve and learn and get better. To do that, I have to keep putting in good performances and help my team-mates around me.

I knew I had to try and win trophies and be successful and be a big player for Liverpool.

I don't think you need motivation to win a league or a trophy. It's every footballer's dream. It's why you play football. You enjoy and love the game, but you play to win and be the best.

When you're on the pitch, you give 100 percent to win the game.

I have just been a bit inconsistent when I have played. That happens in football, especially when you have been out for a long period.

If you're winning games, the confidence flows, and you gain a rhythm, which I've experienced before.

It is about winning a trophy. It doesn't make any difference to me who lifts it; I would just rather win.

I do whatever the manager tells us to do, really.

When you're not playing, it is difficult to feel that you are the leader of the team.

United have some world-class players with a world-class manager.

I've played with Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard for England, and they are top players.

There are going to be highs and lows throughout a career, and you have to try and level it out. Don't get too high and carried away when things are going well, but don't get too low when things aren't happening.

There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.

When it comes to football, I think it's vital you always enjoy playing, and when I arrived at Anfield, I was determined to do just that, whatever anyone else said.

Football always changes. There are always new players coming in at your club or young players coming through with your club or England. You have to be ready, given 100%, improve, and get better.

At Liverpool and England, it's about moving forward and going in the right direction, and you don't want to be left behind by any means.

I want to improve every season, every training session. I'll continue that until I finish my career.

I am a bit boring.

I don't really go out. I stay in and watch TV.

It's everyone's dream to play for their country.

You will get criticised, you will get praised - that's the way football goes. I've learned over a few years now that it can change within an instant.

You give everything; sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but you always have to move on quickly.

There are a lot of players that want to go to the World Cup, so you have to be the player that goes out and performs and shows how much you want to go.

At Sunderland, if I had a bad game, it wasn't like it was the end of the world.

I suppose when people are criticising you and saying that you are not really worthy of going to such a club as Liverpool, it gives you a little bit more drive and more desire to prove them wrong. And that can only help you in the long run: make you a little bit tougher mentally.

The physical part of football has always been a massive part of my game so I can cover the ground during games.

The way we play at Liverpool is with high-intensity football, pressing high up the pitch, winning the ball back quickly, and counter-pressing.

I tend to focus on core work most of all in the gym.

I would say I am more comfortable in the centre of midfield. But when you are at a big club like Liverpool, you maybe get played in positions with which you might not be so familiar. But you have got to learn the different roles, because it gives you a better opportunity to play.

You have got to get to know people, and moving down to Liverpool from the North East was a huge change for me. But, at the same time, you have just got to get on with it, and that is part and parcel of being a footballer.

When you are very young and come through at a club, like I did at Sunderland, I suppose people do not expect as much and have not really heard much about you. Whereas, when you sign for a club, the expectations are higher.

It's important everyone knows their roles individually and collectively as a group.

Real Madrid are a team of winners.

You never know what will happen in football.

In club football, Jurgen very much does everything, and we follow. We listen, and we follow him.

Spain are a fantastic team and fantastic squad of players.

When you play for Liverpool, there's always pressure, pressure to perform, expectation. Of course, that's the reason why you want to go there.

I have always wanted to fight no matter what position I am in, and whether that is Liverpool or England, I need to do more, and I need to do better because you have younger players, or players get signed for the club who push you and want to take your place, and you have to be better than them.

You need people who are vocal on the pitch to give information at different times of the game.

When I finish my career, I can look back and then decide if it was good or not.

I always say, whether it's Liverpool or England, it's not just me who is a leader.

You can't keep having the pressure on your goal all of the time because, eventually, a team will get through.

I have been in tournaments before where people would say, 'England should win this game,' and we didn't.

People have to fear England and not want to play us. The only way of doing that is to play at a high tempo and win games.

Football is a lot to do with mentality.

It was football for me always.