The best player EVER (Leo Messi) without a shadow, if you didn't think/know already.

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting.

To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on!

[He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

A lie is nothing more than the truth told in reverse

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

Whether a person is physically in front of you or not, the love remains.

It has been the best thing that has ever happened in my life.

My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall.

There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.

God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.