Athlete

I'm definitely not a karaoke man, but I like to try stuff, so I'd get up on stage and give it a go. It would have to be something cheesy - karaoke always is - so maybe R. Kelly, 'The World's Greatest.'

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.

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

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

You will always be judged as a Liverpool player but, as a captain, you will be judged on what you win, basically. If you're doing well, and the team is winning everything, you become a very good captain.

It's quite hard at times to take my mind off football, but it's very important. I'll watch something on television, anything, whatever the missus wants to watch.

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

As players, you've got to keep improving, keep learning, keep playing well to get your place in the team.

It is nice to be playing, being on the pitch, and contributing to the team.

Football is a lot to do with mentality.

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.

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.

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

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

I get in the gym and put the work in with the fitness coaches so I can be the best shape I can be in.

It is hard to leave your local club. All my family are Sunderland fans, and it is pretty tough because I have had some great years there, but I am looking forward to playing for Liverpool now.

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

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

I'm a big believer in having to go through hard times to get to where you want to be. Nothing comes easy. You have to work.

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.