The 28-year-old, who won the prestigious award this week, will see Liverpool lose the title race if Manchester United gain a point against Arsenal tomorrow.
And despite having scored another 15 goals for Liverpool this season Gerrard has only recently started to reproduce his club form for his country.
He said: “It will certainly hurt and be difficult missing out on the title and the important thing for me is to try getting it out of the system as quick as possible and try and get my on the World Cup Qualifiers.
“We have another two big games. If we go on and win them two games it puts ourselves in the drivers seat to qualify.
“They are important games and I won’t be at my best if I’m still thinking about the disappointment of losing out on the title race.”
England face Kazakhstan and Andorra in June and wins would almost certainly book a place in the World Cup in South Africa next summer.
It would mark a remarkable turnaround for England who miserably failed to qualify for Euro 2008 just two years ago.
And Gerrard knows that any England success at the next World Cup will be down to new England boss Fabio Capello.
He added: “We are very lucky to have him. I do have a lot of belief in him that he can turn this England to a better team and be successful at the next World Cup.
“We’ve got potential, we’ve got good players. But it’s important we don’t raise expectations to high.”