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Published 14:03 26 Nov 2016 GMT
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"I don't drink, because I don't think I need to. When I finish playing one day I can say to myself 'you know I did everything right'. That's the time when you can enjoy yourself and, I suppose, drink although I don't think I'll really drink. I don't think I'll want to. I've never said it before, my dad used to drink a lot so that's one of the reasons why I don't. My mum has said over the years 'try not to drink if you can'. "All along I've tried not to get in that habit of drinking, because you don't need it if you want to keep performing at the highest level for a long time. I went to a restaurant the other day, they had sea bass on the menu with white wine sauce and I actually asked the waitress if I could have the fish without the white wine. She looked at me and probably thought 'what's wrong with a little bit of white wine? You're meant to be an adult'. But I said, please, just tell the chef, no thanks.” "I think you get more out of yourself if you don't drink. I'm not saying I don't do anything wrong. There's loads of things I do wrong - I think people will have read in the papers. But I do try to do the right things. If you look after yourself and you don't drink, you eat the right things, you have rests, you sleep then you feel ready for the game at the weekend and you've given yourself the best chance because you've not gone out drinking."It's probably just as well that playing for Sunderland he doesn't encounter too many bottles of celebratory champagne. Catch up with this week's episode of Football Friday Live

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