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

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

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

I want to keep an English heart to the team. I believe in that. Michael Owen is that. Never think Michael is afraid of anything.

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.

Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.

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