Gareth Barry

I obviously think I should always be picked. Every player thinks he's good enough to be playing every week.

It's nice hearing your team-mates wanting you to stay.

All I can do is give 100% for the club. That is all the fans will want to see anyway.

It's why the Premier League is watched so much all over the world: because it has more pace and more physicality than in any other league.

Any great club needs the mentality to go on and achieve things - it is what clubs like United have.

I made my mind up that I want to continue playing as long as I can.

Burn-out can be an issue if you are playing too many games.

I think playing international football burns players out, but I was in and out of the England squad so never felt that.

I had my time in the England shirt and won a lot of caps.

While I could still play in the Premier League, I really did not want to go abroad. I was not thinking about winding down my career.

If you win games, you think things are comfortable, and they are not. The best players don't think that way, and that's why they get to where they are: they don't worry about what has gone on and think only about the next game.

If players know their role, it is easier to keep to them.

Martin O'Neill has definitely got the best out of me.

I'm desperate to play Champions League football, and that's why I have to leave Villa.

I just take it a season at a time because I know in football, things can change so quickly.

Any crowd that gets on your back makes it difficult, but you are going to get that if things aren't going well. The fans have got their right to give their opinion.

For me, Goodison is the toughest away ground to come to. I have experienced it.

We never seem to make things easy for ourselves at Everton, and at City, it was the same, having to come from behind to get ahead in the big games.

In my head, I felt if I'd stayed at City and got a chance, I could have done a good job. It was made clear that wasn't going to happen, though.

Sometimes you're just not in the manager's thoughts.