I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.

With all due respect, I have nothing to prove about my worth to anyone.

At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

Top players don't come much topper than Gerrard and Carragher

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it’s the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.

I am absolutely delighted at the prospect of joining a world famous club like Inter.

How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!

When I am away, I am with it. When I am with it, I am away.

Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.

All that glisters is not gold.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.