Jamie Carragher Quotes

It is always nice to play for the bigger teams, contesting titles and Champions League rather than relegation.

It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League.

In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Liverpool is a great club, and we have to put Liverpool back in the Champions League.

A club like Tottenham are up there with the top teams, and I think they have to be in the Champions League.

I think, a lot of teams, when they come to Anfield and they play a draw, they think it is a good result.

Anfield comes alive on big European nights.

Where would I go from Liverpool? It is one of the biggest clubs in the world and I am too happy here to move.

With Ajax and Liverpool, you win about 80 per cent of matches.

My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.

Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'

I knew my first game at Everton wasn't going to be a stroll around the pitch.

It is really nice to play in the Champions League, because we play against the best teams and the best competition in Europe.

At Osasuna I had a difficult experience because of the relegation battle but I always had a place in the team. I played well all season.

In England, there are big games but nothing like the Clasico. Manchester United versus Liverpool is a really great match, probably the best over there. But Barcelona-Madrid is different to any other game in the world.

What I would like most is to play in the Champions League and try to win the Premier League once. Or better - a few times.

Liverpool are a very good team everybody knows that and I am proud to be part of Liverpool.

The more goals you concede ultimately results in the bottom three, not the more goals you score.

I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.

People talk about the history of Manchester United or Liverpool, but look what Arsenal achieved with the team of Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira.

There are always surprises in the Champions League.

My worst moment in football was losing that Champions League final to Barca in Rome.

Oliver Kahn against Valencia in 2001 - this was the first Champions League game I remember. I was a Bayern fan.

I will do everything to return AC Milan to the Champions League.