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I meditate and I have cut out red meat. For me it is just breathing techniques, learning to be still, to control your thought processes, it calms you down. It wasn't about dealing with the pressure of games - I've always been all right in matches. ”
When you go a goal behind the pressure drops off you and you feel like you can play more so when we go ahead we need to be switched on and that is when we need leaders on the pitch. ”
I want everybody including myself to be working just as hard towards the same goal, and if that's not happening I think it's only right to voice that opinion instead of going into your shell and not speaking about it. ”
The Everton fans seem to know football, seem to understand it, it seems to be in their blood and they really back the team. ”
Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them right. ”
There's nothing worse in my book than going home with energy left over. I like to go home knowing I've put a shift in, feeling that I've pushed myself to the max. ”
I always talk about being a team player, I think I'm really good team player. I was a big voice in the changing room before games and nothing really changed for me. ”
Every time I have played against Everton, whether it was home or away, straight away the first thing that comes to mind when you see the fans is passion. ”
I just want everyone I am playing with to be fully switched on, really on it. You don't have to be the best player in the team to have an effect on the players around you. ”
Gael Clichy who was at the club does a lot of meditation and he recommend it to me because I was such an all-action guy. ”