Playing for England is a bonus, but playing for Liverpool is what I want to do.

In the modern era, with the rewards the top players have during their career and the risks involved moving into management, more will look at it and say they don't need it.

We talk about the Arsenal 'Invincibles' of 2004 and the team who won the Double two years earlier and drool over their attacking play. It is easy to forget, though, that virtually the same squad had won nothing for three years.

If you want trophies, they don't get given to you, you have to earn them, you have to play well in big games.

I've been in the position where Liverpool needed to win on the last day to reach the Champions League. In May 2000, we needed to beat Bradford, who were fighting to avoid relegation, at Valley Parade but lost an awful game 1-0.

I think with my generation, your first game of senior football was often a Sunday League game of football. Sometimes you're playing on pitches that aren't great, you've no referee, you've no goal nets.

People make relegation out to be a fate worse than death but that's nonsense. If the infrastructure is right, clubs can bounce back.

Learning to be a Liverpool player comes with experience.

Would I - or any defender - tell the referee to give a penalty if I made a foul in the box but it was deemed a fair tackle? No chance.

We are constantly told to enjoy Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo before they retire but what about Arjen Robben?

Anger and bad experiences used to fuel my performances, but it was horribly draining.

It's been a privilege for me, really, to play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, an iconic club, an institution.

You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to.

I don't mind a bit of cricket, but it has to be something massive like the Ashes.

I get mad at football coaches who are afraid to call for a big play early in the game, you know, because they want to still be in the game at the end, and then it turns out they have no chance but a Hail Mary or something similar to that at the end.

I know who I am as a person and as a player.

I'm the head of my home. And I have to get my daily bread by chasing Christ.

Sometimes, you get kind of redundant by learning the same offense over and over again.

I know I'm confident in my ability.

I'm going to be a good quarterback, a great quarterback.

I'm not a selfish player; it's about our team.

One thing that I've learned is if you can play it don't matter what age you are, it doesn't matter.

It's about being a student-athlete, and not just getting that easy money and going to the league.

I was always raised as a student first and an athlete second. I think that's the main purpose in college. Some athletes lose that perspective.