Steven Gerrard Quotes

Growing up, I loved Messi. I love how he dribbles, how he plays the game, it just makes it look so easy and it makes it look so fun.

Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

I went for a tackle with Radamel Falcao against Colombia, and he just dropped to the floor. I said to him 'Just get up!'

I don't dive. I'm not a player who dives.

I started playing at six. I was at a school always playing football with my friends. But I was always bored at home. I asked my father if he could start me in a football team. He took me to a team called Rupel Boom, who were playing in the fourth division in Belgium, and I stayed there for four years.

I am always pleased to talk about Buffon. He is an extraordinary player, a professional with values.

Maradona, if the ball came from his right, he would turn and would use his left foot, because he did not use his right. But he did use his right hand.

I'm always a player who has taken fairly rough treatment, to be honest. I think my time in Scotland typified that because I think there was one game where I set a record for being fouled ten or 11 times in a game.

Modric is spectacular, but Messi has no comparison with Luka or anyone.

Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.

I won't be fining players for getting sent off.

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.

A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

CR7 is the best player in the world, we’re lucky to train with him every day and to have him with us

They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.

There will be internal discipline, but I can envisage both of them playing for Newcastle again. They're top-class players and they don't come along very often.

The game must have been past my bed-time.

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.