For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't think I'd ever leave

I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave.

No-one wants to grow up and be a Gary Neville.

This is the best club in the world with the best fans, so I'm very proud to be a Liverpool player for the next four years and hopefully even longer.

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.

To captain Liverpool in any game is special, but to do it in a final, would be one of the proudest moments of my life.

Don't ever call me a bottler on the radio with thousands of people listening

Well Xabi is entitled to his opinion our team would never criticise another but we will look to exploit his lack of pace!

I think it would be great for football in Britain if Pep Guardiola wins leagues and dominates for a while with the way he likes to play and the players he'll bring in.

There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest.

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of 1970, that you will reopen coal mines.

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

Having personal things in balance is more important than the other.

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.