I love playing football so I want to play as many as I can.

It is an old cliche but it is game by game for me.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

When I was switching around in my early stages, people underestimated how difficult it was just to go from playing centre midfield to right-back to centre-back to right-back to centre midfield.

Playing in midfield is a different ball game. You have to be on the half-turn all the time, have a different picture in your head of what is behind you and in front of you. Playing at right-back is different again.

When you come into training in the morning, knowing that people are talking about you in the same breath as players of the Busby era, it is fantastic, but I can't let it affect me.

It was brilliant when I heard of United's interest, an incredible feeling.

Lots of clubs showed an interest in me, but United just felt right; the whole club, the set-up. It wasn't the fact that it was United, it was that I walked in here and met people, the staff and physios et cetera, and it just felt right.

I didn't want to come from playing every week at Blackburn to becoming a bit-part player at United, but I knew I probably had to do that at the start.

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

Conceding just before half-time never helps.

People don't wake up one morning and say: 'I fancy being injured today.' It is just the way it is.

I don't think any training session can get you ready for a game in the Premier League, never mind playing against Liverpool.

People want us to fail because we have won the league so many times. United won the league long before I was here.

I have always said that if I get a run of games and stay fit I know what I am capable of.

One minute you can be the blue-eyed boy and the next match you can be slated.

People can assume and predict and it is up to us to prove them all wrong.

That is all you can ask, for a manager to be honest and tell you how things are.

It is nice to be playing and involved.

I don't know when I will peak and be at my best but I am learning every day and as long as I keep doing that I am happy.

Ever since I was at Blackburn, when you talk about getting pro contracts I was never the guy that was talked about as, 'This guy is going to be the best player, the next best thing.'

I would never have dreamed of being able to lift the Premier League trophy.

Own goals happen to the best of players.

I want to stop goals going in the net.

I'm not a player who needs telling every day in training 'you're brilliant, you're this, you're that'... but it's always nice to hear comments from the manager and people around that you're doing well.

Having more money allows you to play in a certain way, but that's the beauty of the Premier League - there are so many different styles.

People have different opinions. They are entitled to that and as professionals we get on with it and forget about it and concentrate on what we do on the pitch.

You always get that buzz, that feeling of shivers down the back of your neck every time you walk out at Old Trafford or anywhere.

I know when I step into midfield I have to sharpen my feet up and be more aware of what's around me, at centre back it's more about timing, positioning and communication.

I've always said I aspire to follow the likes of John Terry, Michael Dawson and Rio Ferdinand. I always watch what they do and try and learn from them.

Everyone hates the best clubs, it is as simple as that.

Defending isn't just about tackling and heading, it's also about getting the ball down and playing - starting the attack from the back.

My mates send me pictures every single night on the Whatsapp group taking the mick out of me. It's banter, it is what it is. It doesn't bother me.

I have always said from day dot if somebody comes in and they give me a chance to play and play regularly then they will get the best out of me.

Success for Manchester United is winning the Premier League, adding another trophy and having another good cup run is another one.

I am not a player who goes on mazy runs - I like to defend. I like to do a job for the team.

When I was younger you think you know it all and after games you probably just go for some food or sit on your PlayStation. Now I take it a lot more seriously and recover properly because I know I need to give myself the best possible chance to be as fresh and as fit as I can for the next game.

We are under no illusions that we have no given right to win things, but winning the FA Cup is not enough.

It's not enough just to win a cup.

We will always have our critics because we are Manchester United. It has been like that since I have been here.

When I was younger I used to get really nervous before games, so much so, you are almost throwing up before games.

I'm lucky, I'm lucky enough that I am strong mentally.

You want to win things, you want the best players to come to Manchester United and if we're playing better and we're winning things and we're challenging for things then we're going to attract the best players.

I don't lose sleep about what people say about me. It's football.

I'm going to get criticism in the future, I've had criticism in the past. Honestly, I genuinely don't care.

I have a wonderful family and wonderful friends.

We're Man United, of course, we're going to be interested in the best players in the world, I'd be pretty amazed if we weren't.