Quotes from Jamie Carragher

Medals were - and always will be - the best thing to show your accomplishments in football.

Buffon has been a star from the moment he began his senior career with Parma.

In knockout football, it's one bad game and you're out.

Anger and bad experiences used to fuel my performances, but it was horribly draining.

Playing for England is a bonus, but playing for Liverpool is what I want to do.

I think with my generation, your first game of senior football was often a Sunday League game of football. Sometimes you're playing on pitches that aren't great, you've no referee, you've no goal nets.

Well, when I wasn't playing with a football I used to play with 'Star Wars' figures as a kid. Hanging out with Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker is how I passed the time when I wasn't kicking a ball around.

The reason Ozil has as many detractors as supporters is he is a bit of an anomaly - an elegant, skilful footballer who at his best evokes memories of the great number 10s from the past, but sometimes looks unsuited to the extra demands of a changing game at the very top.

Compared to other clubs, what we've achieved under Gerard Houllier is exceptional.

Nobody in football wants to receive sympathy.

Many in top positions around Europe have devoted their lives to coaching.

People always want to talk about the club, whether it is positively or negatively, and if you play for Liverpool you have got to get used to that as part of the job.

We have all come to agree the modern players cannot be one-trick ponies, and we are especially critical of those who do not consistently produce in the biggest games.

We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well.

The crowd, especially at Anfield, want us to win so much that it transmits itself down on to the pitch at times.

Would I - or any defender - tell the referee to give a penalty if I made a foul in the box but it was deemed a fair tackle? No chance.

Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso was always bemused by our enthusiasm for tackling, because he saw it as the last resort.

I want to be a manager, it wouldn't scare me, but I also think you could be sacked in six months and you'd have to take the kids back to school with your tail between your legs.

People go on about how much players earn in the Premier League but once you've bought a nice house and car, what else is there to spend it on?

I only missed nine Premier League games from a possible 228 between August 2004 and May 2010.

Coaching for tackles? That's something you do with seven-year-olds, when you show them how to stand and when to make a block. It is one of the basics of the game. No Premier League manager needs to coach it.

In the past, you would have been classed as a sweeper if you were put in the middle of a three-man defence.

I understand that we're paid a lot of money and we're in the limelight. When things don't go well, there's deserved criticism.

I always thought just because I love football, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm desperate to manage.