I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.
If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.
The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.
I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.
There were a lot of players who worked just as hard as I did, and if you didn't, you didn't stay in the big leagues.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.
The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.