JAMES MILNER

Individual players don't win titles no matter how good you are as a player. The best players in the world need a team around them. It is about the team, and we are playing for the badge.

It's tough. That's the side people don't see. You have to balance it, get it right, and be a dad as well as a footballer. That is part of the job. Around this time of year, it's so important.

Things move on quickly in football. You win the FA Cup: 'So?' We won the league the next year: 'So what? Go out and win it again.'

I contribute in many different ways to the team. I've played a hell of a lot of games in my career, and you can stake any argument on the stats.

I think the first time I had to play at left-back was at Manchester United in the Europa League.

City are a great club, and I had five great years there and enjoyed every minute. The fans were brilliant with me the whole time there, and that made the decision difficult.

I had the chance to play with Alan Shearer to join the list of class players I'd played with at a young age at Leeds - the Vidukas, Smiths, Kewells, and Woodgates.

I would never say never. You never know what is going to happen.

When a new manager comes in, you have to prove yourself all over again. That's what you have to do every day and keep your standards high.

I was going to a good club in Newcastle and working with an unbelievable manager in Bobby Robson. It was the best for Leeds, and in the end, it worked out well for me as well.

Liverpool is a great fit for me as a club. It's a huge club, and there is a lot of pressure every time you step out onto that field. I've played in front of the Anfield crowd, and it'll be nice to be on the other side of the fans now.

At Leeds, it was to stay up. I was such a young player, Leeds were my club, and we didn't do it. That was a lot to take. At Newcastle, the expectations to win a trophy were enormous. The No. 1 thing everyone up there thinks about is the football club.

I don't think I'd like to be that guy who does disrupt training. I always feel the team comes first, and that's the way it is, and me being a disruptive influence, because I'm not playing, doesn't help the team.

For me, if you play at Anfield, it is not a tactical game.

Fitness has always been a strength of mine. People seem to look at ages and think once you get over 30, you're coming to the end. I'd like to think I've got a number of years left in me. I feel really good, and that's down to the great work the staff at the club do looking after us and the facilities we have.

I've started the coaching badges. I did some at Aston Villa, but things got in the way.'

Losing a cup final is massively disappointing, but you can accept it if you play to your potential.

I think you always want to see your former clubs doing well.

To be in the last four of the biggest competition is where you want to be and where Liverpool have been as a club many times in the past.

As a professional, you want to get as much as you can out of your career, play at the top level, and win trophies. Playing with top players at Manchester City, I've got a great chance of doing that, and I just want to keep improving.

What Liverpool do really well is they try to get you inside but then close you down.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

I want to play as much football as I can.

I only properly played golf when I was 15 or 16. The best course I've done? Pebble Beach in California.

I was a wicket-keeper who opened the batting. Could I have made it? Hard to say. I probably wouldn't quite have been good enough. I might get back into it once I've finished with the football.