Kyle Walker

You have to remember that professional football is a job, too, and some people have to get results on the pitch to pay to live.

When I'm out and about or walking my dogs, United fans are coming up to me saying, 'We'd rather City win the league than Liverpool.' It's strange to hear, but I can assure you the United players aren't going to leave a red carpet and say, 'Go on, City, score past us.'

I've played a lot of games in my career - against Fulham was my 400th.

As footballers, we do get lazy sometimes and take the ball with our preferred foot to control it, but that split second of controlling it with your left foot and playing with your right can make all the difference in creating a chance or scoring a goal.

I don't want to score; as long as I set people up and then they get the goals, that's all I'm bothered about.

With the Premier League, you can afford to lose a couple here and there, but it's a tough competition, a cup competition.

I gambled when I left QPR to go to Aston Villa half-way through the season when we were winning every Championship game, and that paid off. You just get a sense inside you, and you have to go.

Spurs will always have a place in my heart. They gave me a chance to play Premier League football, and I'll be forever indebted to them.

I'm a perfectionist. I want everything done right. When it's not done right, I'm not happy.

I like to think I'm a grown-up, but it's just nice you can have a civil conversation with your boss, you're both on the same page, and you've had a text, not about football, just about golf.

I don't go throwing money about - if I did, I think my mum and dad would be on my back because that's not the way I've been brought up.

I'm a defender first and foremost, and if I'm playing right centre-half, I am even more of a defender than the wing-backs.