Houllier couldn’t deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting.

To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.

One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.