Quotes from Steven Gerrard

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!

Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You've got to take responsibility and to do everything in your power to get results. Hopefully players look at that and try and follow it.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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