DANNY INGS

No one turns up at Turf Moor thinking we are a soft touch.

I want to look back at the end of my career having numerous caps under my belt. That is one of my aims.

I can play in a number of positions, on the left, as a No 10, or off the right.

My experience at Bournemouth made me who I am today.

Burnley Football Club helped me mature from a boy to a man and I can't thank them everyone from the club enough, from the board to the staff at the training ground and the staff at the club.

Everyone knows Jose Mourinho is a fantastic manager.

I'm just working every day to improve.

Being outside on the grass is the easy, enjoyable part of being a footballer.

You see a player come through from nowhere every now and again and getting a top club. It shows there are players out there.

My preferred position has always been striker and I think I managed to show what I could do.

I like to think I would adapt to the way that any manager who came in would want to play.

I had to turn off my Twitter notifications for a while as I got a small minority of people sending me some abusive tweets.

Any injury I have had, I have come back stronger.

You don't want to have a good couple of years, come through the Championship, have a good first year in the Premier League and then not play in the Premier League for another year or so because that is a backward step.

Every football player has their own journey and unfortunately my injuries were out of my hands. There wasn't much I could have done about that except rehab to the best of my ability which I did.

I'm absolutely enjoying the Premier League, as you can imagine. I knew it was going to be tough. It's the best league in the world and you are up against players who have been in it for years so they know it inside out.

As soon as I knew Liverpool were interested in me, I knew I wanted to come here. It was everything about the club, the history and these players.

I wanted to go somewhere I could be an important player. Be the player the whole city looks up to.

I don't want to be a guy that has got one cap.

As I said, the biggest competition is myself and it will always be.

As modern-day professionals it all comes down to how you perform on the pitch.

I had been released by Southampton and was back playing Sunday League football when I signed for Bournemouth. I grew to love the club.

I will always back myself to achieve what I can achieve. It is all down to me.

Football is not just a game, it means the world to me and I'm so thankful of what it has given to me and my family, so every opportunity I get, I want to give my all in return.

For me there's nothing better than having more football.