Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.
If you don’t play to win don’t play at all.
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.
Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.
If you can’t win, make sure you don’t lose.
Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.
Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.
Football, bloody hell!
On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.
I’ll do whatever it takes to win.
You are what your record says you are.
Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.
I love football, football is my life.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.
All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.
I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful – and that’s it, basically. That’s why professional football exists.