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"This guy should never play football again. What is he doing on the football pitch? I've gone along with the idea for a long time that to stop Arsenal, you have to kick Arsenal. I knew that was coming …"

"If I go into a season and I say, ‘For fuck’s sake, if we don’t win anything, they will all leave,’ I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the mana…"

"Is he the best in the world? He might not get the attention of Messi and Ronaldo but yes, I think he just might be.If you don't have a player like Steven Gerrard, who is the engine room, it can affect…"

"Gerrard has been my idol for 10 years and is one of the best players in the world. He is the example of what all midfield players aspire to. He is always there in the heat of the battle, leading by ex…"

"You forget what you wrote last September, October, November. You have a little bit of Alzheimer's."

"Gérard thoughts on the matter echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten da…"

"‘He is physically and technically precocious. He’s got a good engine and remarkable energy. He reads the game and he passes quickly. I would hate to think Liverpool have someone as good as Roy Keane."

"I had really not seen much of him before this season, apart from for England, but wow. I think of him as being at the same level as Pirlo. Vision, technique, but he is powerful as well. Stevie can do …"

"On a BBC documentary, Manchester United and England captain Wayne Rooney was asked who was the best player he played with for England. “I’d have to say Stevie . For me he’s an incredible player, an in…"

"The speed at which we moved the ball in small spaces and our quality was superb. We played the ball through needles and it was very difficult for Aston Villa."

"Gerrard is the best player I've ever played with"

"We do not buy superstars. We make them."

"Steven Gerrard was awesome today. We were just laughing in the dressing room that at one stage we thought he was heading his own crosses in."

"If happiness is liking the life one lives, I can say I have been happy, and still am."

"We are preparing a special weightlifting plan for Gerrard's shoulders because we want him to lift a lot of trophies for us in the next few years."

"For managers such big scores don’t have any meaning, whether you win 5-0 or you lose 5-0. You’re elated but ‘footballistically’ it does not show the real difference between teams."

"When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to comp…"

"You weren't world class when Arsenal signed you."

"When people talk about the best footballers in Europe, they always single out Messi, and Ronaldo, but Gerrard is just as strong, Messi and Ronaldo are special talents and the fact that they are in tea…"

"The best midfielder I would say is Steven Gerrard. I really rate him as a player and as a man."

"For me, and I have always said this, he will be regarded as one of the greatest midfielders ever when he finishes his career. No doubt."

"Despite the global warming, England is still not warm enough for him."

"He is undoubtedly one of the best midfield players in the world. Any top club would want him in their side."

"No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed."

"What would I do if Alex wasn't around? I would have no one to keep me on my toes or to fight. So of course I am pleased he changed his mind. I enjoy our rivalry. It is good for Arsenal, good for Manch…"

"Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him."

"In England, football is important for everybody."

"I want to go to the end of my job here. I built this team, I want to deliver with this team and I feel if I left I would have in some way betrayed my own beliefs. It is as simple as that. It was nothi…"

"Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home."

"We were considering him and Francis Jeffers and, in the end, we went for Jeffers."

"Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, Lionel Messi or Xavi from Barcelona deserved the award more. "Ronaldo is only focused on finishing in front of goal. "I love Gerrard's qualities as a player and a leader. T…"

"I told you last week that the race was not over when the bookmakers stopped betting. Surprise, surprise, they have started taking money again."

"He is, in my opinion, the best midfielder in the world, and has a track record for delivering on the big occasions."

"An excellent player, in my opinion, he is a modern player because he is a player who runs, marks, knows how to pass, cross, score goals and he is a leader on the field for Liverpool. So he is a player…"

"'For me Gerrard can do everything and that's the reason I'd say he was the best of the three if I had to split them ahead of Scholes and Lampard in that order. They are all top professionals and each …"

"Kaka wants AC Milan to sign Steven Gerrard, despite the England midfielder recently agreeing a new contract with Liverpool. The Brazilian said: ‘The time has arrived to re-energise a group which has m…"

"They are a financially doped club. They have enhancement of performances through financial resources which are unlimited. It puts pressure on the market that is not very healthy. They can go to Steven…"

"He's one of the players I would have loved to coach, and I thought about him so many times in the past when I was at Milan. But it was impossible because he was very much linked with Liverpool. We had…"

"If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from."

"Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season."

"Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don’t know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intellig…"

"I feel Bolton played a cup game today, they were one week late."

"We've been remarkably consistent, haven't lost a game and we have played stylish football. We have entertained people who just love football."

"It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?"

"What is unbelievable is that I am in a position where people reproach me for making a profit. The people who lose money – nobody says a word. Reproach the people who lose money. I do business by manag…"

"England have always had individually strong players and I am a huge fan of Stevie Gerrard, He has the heart of a lion and is the icon of the modern footballer with his ability to attack and defend so …"

"We wanted tonight to be a shift of power, and to take the trophy back to Highbury."

"“Gerrard will fit in with any club in the world. He’s one of the players in the world that have all what it takes to play for Real Madrid. I want to urge Gerrard to join Real Madrid. If you don’t play…"

"“He’s been a reference to all his team-mates throughout the years and is now in history for such a brilliant career at his club for all his life."

"If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages."

"He's out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent."

"Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here."

"‘Gerrard is an excellent player, absolutely world-class. If I was a manager, everywhere I went I would buy Steven Gerrard. ‘He is what Brazil needs, because he is always looking forward and has a big …"

"It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous."

"“I have said in the past that at his peak he was the best in the world. I think it was the summer of 2004 I was having a conversation with Florentino and I told him I wanted him to partner me in midfi…"

"'He is without doubt the greatest player I have ever played with, he has everything. At Liverpool, he is irreplaceable. Every big club has a standard bearer, a home-grown talent, someone with a lifelo…"

"I was surprised by the resources they find. They are amazing. It doesn't get any worse than losing a Champions League game the way we did, but I felt the way they responded was absolutely magnificent."

"Asked who was the toughest English opponent he had faced over the years, Pirlo said, “That night in Istanbul, Liverpool’s fight back was centralized on Steven Gerrard. He was their leader, their star …"

"I'd put him in the top three, not just in England but in the world because he's a complete player. Would I have liked to play alongside him?" I think anyone would love to play with players of that cal…"

"In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering."