Steven Gerrard Quotes

Liverpool is a massive club and has obviously been very successful over the years.

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

It's probably been the worst three months of my life.

I didn't sleep with the European Cup but it was in my room! It was just special and I just had to have the cup with me, lifting the cup as Liverpool captain was just the best moment of my life.

Torres was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. And when he approached me and said he wanted out, it was like a knife to the heart.

I'll admit, it gives me a real buzz when I hear my name being chanted and that feeling is the same now as it was when I first broke into the team.

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!

I will be the one lifting that trophy, not Paolo Maldini. Imagine me hoisting the trophy. It is an image I have in my mind and I want to make it a reality. We have world-class players and, believe me, they are in the mood to do it. The atmosphere around the club at the moment is just top-class.

This does not
ing slip now.

There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.

If I ever saw one of my team-mates diving, I'd definitely have a word

I have always applied myself the same for club and country.

I think we could do with being a little more adventurous in certain areas and push on that little bit more, while a bit of luck also wouldn't go amiss.

I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.

It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it.

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.

Don't try to beat the goalkeeper ... Tr y to destroy the goalkeeper.

Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.

It will be the proudest moment of my life leading Liverpool out. I've dreamed of this day since I was a kid, kicking a ball against the wall in the street where I lived. What could be better than leading Liverpool out for the Champions League final? Only lifting the trophy. We need everyone, all 11 players who start and the subs, to be ready to give everything. We need that mentality, when everyone has to put everything on the line for Liverpool. That is what it will take to win. We have to make sure we don't have any regrets at the final whistle.

We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster.

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

We need to go there and make sure we bring that cup home. and if we do succeed, then we'll dedicate it to the fans that have waited so patiently since 1984.
(on the Champions League)

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

When I die, don't bring me to the hospital. Bring me to Anfield. I was born there and will die there.

I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.

I might be an ambassador.

Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

A mate owned a Bryan Robson top. We were kicking about, and I asked if I could be Robbo for a while. My dad looked out and went ballistic. He wasn't having his kid dragging the Gerrard name through the gutter. I thought we'd have to move!

There is going to be a lot asked of me over the next few weeks but I am getting more experience now and learning all the time.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us.
(on Liverpool)

To me it's the best trophy you can win and to bring it back for all them fans that have supported us right through would be something special.

I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

Loyalty doesn't seem to be in the game that much these days where players leave their clubs which made them the stars they are today either to seek personal glory or fill their pockets. But one man serves as the epitome of club loyalty..

My message to the fans would be that hopefully I can continue to perform as consistently as I have done this season and lift a trophy for them soon.

Earlier on in the season I'd have been very surprised to think we could win this competition because there were some fantastic teams in it.
(on the Champions League)

Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.

Red is our color.
(on Liverpool)

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.

This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.

I just wanted to jump into the stands and start celebrating with those wonderful fans.
(on reaching the Champions League final)

As club captain all I want to do is help us get back up the table and into the Champions League.

I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.