The buzz we had in 2000-01 was unique. We played 34 matches between January 1 and May 19, but lost only four.

Medals were - and always will be - the best thing to show your accomplishments in football.

This is Leicester City. They are a yo-yo club and always have been.

When I think of Xabi, my mind goes back to the first training session he had at Melwood in August 2004. And the same word always leaps out: wow! Rafa Benitez had talked him up before he arrived and immediately you understood.

Xabi embraced life in Liverpool.

When the tone needs to be set and the crowd need to be revved up, nothing is better than a big, shuddering tackle.

I never wanted anybody to think that I deliberately hurt opponents. The vast majority of players are the same.

I've never blown my own trumpet over my ability but it took an awful lot to stop me getting on the pitch.

I only missed nine Premier League games from a possible 228 between August 2004 and May 2010.

We are not a nation who has ever produced No 10s prolifically. When I was growing up, attacks consisted of a big man-little man combination, with two midfielders sitting behind.

Liverpool is no different to any other city in the country for footballers. If you are famous and people know you have money, there will always be someone who wants to make a name for themselves.

People talk about managers having certain styles and philosophies... well, Benitez manages by conflict. Look right through his career and you will see it everywhere.

There were players who could leave the result at Anfield, but me? No chance. I got involved in the running of two restaurants in Liverpool to take my mind off football but, before the opening night of each one, I'd played badly. It meant I couldn't enjoy the party. It felt like I had to punish myself.

The pressure from within used to have an impact on my behaviour. If games had gone badly, I would take things home with me. I'd be snappy at my kids and felt constantly wound up.

My wife never went to many Liverpool games but if she was out on a Saturday, she would always ask someone for the score. If we had won, she'd simply be relieved that I would be coming home in a good mood.

I was born on January 28, 1978, the same day as Buffon.

Buffon has been a star from the moment he began his senior career with Parma.

There is so much I admire about Buffon. His longevity is remarkable, his loyalty to Juventus impeccable.

We sometimes undervalue the importance of goalkeepers.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

Del Bosque was axed by Madrid for failing to retain the Champions League in 2003 but his sacking triggered the start of a spell when they won nothing for four years and failed to get beyond the Champions League's last 16.

Real Madrid is such an extraordinary club in terms of size and the constant politics that, perhaps, the best results are achieved by those with an ability to remove themselves from the spotlight to concentrate on their work.

Rafa Benitez - man with huge experience who knew how the club operated - could not get the results Real wanted and couldn't walk away from the fights that erupted in the dressing room and the boardroom.

There are times when I watch Jurgen Klopp leaping around after Liverpool have scored and I think to myself: 'I wish that was me.'

A chance to manage at the highest level? What could be better?

My family regarded the end of my career as a sign they could really enjoy life a bit rather than cancelling plans on the back of a poor result - it happened many times!

Many in top positions around Europe have devoted their lives to coaching.

Coaching for tackles? That's something you do with seven-year-olds, when you show them how to stand and when to make a block. It is one of the basics of the game. No Premier League manager needs to coach it.

It is a sad day for football when a player about to enter his prime moves for financial reasons and nothing else.

It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.

I don't like myself without a beard.

Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no actor in the world who could live up to that.

When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.

Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good.

I feel very tied to Ireland and the U.K. and that side of the world.

People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!

I feel pretty secure about who I am.

My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.

A doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system.

People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

I think I've done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein. But that tag - 'underwear model' - I just can't get rid of it. And it's such a bizarre, specific thing - underwear. It's like I never modelled clothes.

I grew up in a very liberal place.

I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.

I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.