As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.

I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

With all due respect, I have nothing to prove about my worth to anyone.

At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

Top players don't come much topper than Gerrard and Carragher

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it’s the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.

I am absolutely delighted at the prospect of joining a world famous club like Inter.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Giving is recieving

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

Israel is not an aviary.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

I liked the monsters, I liked them because I couldn't understand how something so scary could also be so good. It got me thinking as a very early age, and I had a lot of rehearsal.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

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