But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

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

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 think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

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.

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

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

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

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

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

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

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

107 caps isn't bad for someone who isn't 'a top, top player', is it? I never expected to get that amount of caps. When I made my debut, I set myself the personal target of trying to get 50 caps and score 10 goals if I could. So to have 107 is something I am really proud of, particularly being among those names.

Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.

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.

I'm born in Liverpool, I'm a Liverpool supporter.

I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.

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

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

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!

Dont try to beat the goalkeeper. Try to destroy the goalkeeper.

Football is all about winning things as a team but it's also important to pick up individual awards along the way.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.

I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that.