JORDAN HENDERSON

You are always having to prove something in football whether you are flying or not.

At Liverpool and England, it's about moving forward and going in the right direction, and you don't want to be left behind by any means.

I don't think you need motivation to win a league or a trophy. It's every footballer's dream. It's why you play football. You enjoy and love the game, but you play to win and be the best.

When I was very young, coming into the Sunderland side, if we got beaten, I'd be very down. I'd go home, and it would drag on for days, I'd be thinking about the game. I was from Sunderland, felt things like a fan, and got really down.

I do whatever the manager tells us to do, really.

Football always changes. There are always new players coming in at your club or young players coming through with your club or England. You have to be ready, given 100%, improve, and get better.

In club football, Jurgen very much does everything, and we follow. We listen, and we follow him.

Sometimes I can be a little bit cautious in keeping the ball, playing a safe pass rather than an adventurous one.

Criticism's healthy. It gives you that extra little bit inside you to prove people wrong, to use it as energy, to use it as fuel.

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.

I've always played with a high intensity anyway. That's how I've always been.

When you play for Liverpool and England, you have good players around you, and you want to compete with the best.

At Sunderland, if I had a bad game, it wasn't like it was the end of the world.

Everything on the pitch is to help the team.

You have got to get to know people, and moving down to Liverpool from the North East was a huge change for me. But, at the same time, you have just got to get on with it, and that is part and parcel of being a footballer.

I have just been a bit inconsistent when I have played. That happens in football, especially when you have been out for a long period.

You will get criticised, you will get praised - that's the way football goes. I've learned over a few years now that it can change within an instant.

It's about doing what the team needs me to do, not what I want to do or what I think I can do.

The way we play at Liverpool is with high-intensity football, pressing high up the pitch, winning the ball back quickly, and counter-pressing.

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.'

I don't like to look too far back into the past.

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

I want to improve every season, every training session. I'll continue that until I finish my career.

It's in the DNA of Liverpool Football Club to win trophies.

It was football for me always.