Quotes from Steven Gerrard

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 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.

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.

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

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

I think everyone around the world knows the tools are there in England's armoury to do well in a World Cup. The challenge is to go out there and prove it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Let's not have any regrets when we walk off that field at the end of tonight,

For some strange reason there were various rumours about the pair of us fighting on the training pitch. It was always bollocks. I would get more pissed off that they always had Carra winning our imaginary fights. I'll have to get the gloves on one night – especially now that Carra is sparring with Tony Bellew, one of our top boxers in Liverpool.

I remember Jerzy Dudek being in a terrible state. Normally Jerzy's the nicest fellow on the planet; but after a night on the drink he came out of Monty's wanting to fight the security guys and the police. He wanted to take on the world. I think that's when most of us realized, a little blearily, it was time to call it a night.

Steven Gerrard with Donald McRae MY STORY

That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.

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

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

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

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

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 might be an ambassador.

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