To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

When I see the Bill Shankly statue, I look at the sentiment on the base. It says: 'He made the people happy’. Well now the modern Liverpool is making the fans and the city happy. And that makes me so proud.

We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.