“I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.”

You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

It is my job to help the players react better.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

I love pets, especially dogs.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.

The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football – it’s the top challenge.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.

Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.