If you approach a player with respect, he will give you that respect back, but sometimes fans are just critical.

The past can influence the future. When you finish one chapter, you open another, which will be influenced by what you've just lived through.

You can get racially abused 10 times before you even reach the football stadium. If you've been confronted every day with something like that, it's hard. This is not about people playing the 'race card.' This is a reality that people like to sweep under the carpet.

Gerrard is passionate, and he leads from the front. At times, he has lifted Liverpool to great wins almost single-handedly.

People wonder why I smile a lot. It is because I am doing what I love best: to play football for people who love me. It makes me happy.

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.