A biography for Jamie Carragherhasn’t been written yet.
“I want to be a manager, it wouldn't scare me, but I also think you could be sacked in six months and you'd have to take the kids back to school with your tail between your legs.”
“I like Tony Blair.”
“Arsene Wenger is a legend in the English game.”
“There's one thing I've never seen in a paper. Jamie Carragher linked with this or that club.”
“If I'm reading a book by a footballer I don't want to read about games, how he scored or played well. People want to read what you thought, not what happened.”
“Everyone's different with different ways of doing things.”
“Anger and bad experiences used to fuel my performances, but it was horribly draining.”
“We're only human and when things aren't going well the confidence does go a little bit.”
“When I think of Xabi, my mind goes back to the first training session he had at Melwood in August 2004. And the same word always leaps out: wow! Rafa Benitez had talked him up before he arrived and immediately you understood.”
“The pressure from within used to have an impact on my behaviour. If games had gone badly, I would take things home with me. I'd be snappy at my kids and felt constantly wound up.”
“Has there ever been a Premier League star splitting opinion more than Mesut Ozil?”
“I've been in the position where Liverpool needed to win on the last day to reach the Champions League. In May 2000, we needed to beat Bradford, who were fighting to avoid relegation, at Valley Parade but lost an awful game 1-0.”
“The crowd, especially at Anfield, want us to win so much that it transmits itself down on to the pitch at times.”
“It's all about winning trophies really.”
“Robben is truly world class, proving himself at the highest level in England, Spain, Germany and on the international stage.”
“You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to.”
“The only way the confidence comes back is by winning games. You grind out a few results and hopefully with each game you get more confident.”
“Del Bosque was axed by Madrid for failing to retain the Champions League in 2003 but his sacking triggered the start of a spell when they won nothing for four years and failed to get beyond the Champions League's last 16.”
“The buzz we had in 2000-01 was unique. We played 34 matches between January 1 and May 19, but lost only four.”
“It is a sad day for football when a player about to enter his prime moves for financial reasons and nothing else.”