It's always nice to start off with a good result.

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.

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.

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.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.

And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.

• you should improve your character, because it's belong to your destiny ♥

You get changed by the Bill Belichick way, you get changed by the Patriot Way.

We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and a lot of, like, secular stuff was not around my house.