I think if you think that far ahead about the first four, or to be champions, that is something you cannot control. You can control the training, and then the performance will come game by game, and do not think that far ahead.

I can play in a lot of different positions; I can do a lot of things.

I don't think it's wrong to have a big ego. Sometimes a big ego can help you also.

As a football player, you must have a big ego to respect yourself. So if you are a good player, you must say that you are good. You need to have the confidence.

I'm quite a shy person, but I know I'm a good football player. That's just the way I am. That's the way I grew up. My grandmother brought me up, and she is the same way. She's understated, but she knows what she's worth.

I like Liverpool. I like the club, and I like the fans. The people appreciate me. That's the most important thing.

At a club like Liverpool, you have to win everything possible, and you have to play for both - the Premier League and the Champions League.

I want to play in a stronger league than the Eredivisie.

You have better players and teams in England, and for myself, it is better to play in a better league against better players.

Everything is possible in football.

Pochettino is a terrific manager if you look at the way his teams play.

I saw Spurs as being a very good fit for me - but we were unable to agree financial terms with them... With hindsight, though, that was not a disaster.

From the moment I first spoke with him, I knew that I wanted to join Liverpool. I fell for Klopp - hook, line, and sinker.

I only worked with Rafa Benitez for a short time, but he's a great manager, and he showed it from the first moment he came. He worked with the players and made us a better team. He's a good person, always trying to help players out.

Anfield comes alive on big European nights.

What I loved the most about the Champions League was the games at home.

Some games don't go the way you want them to go, but you still have to find a way to win.

If you want to compete for the Premier League title, you need to win ugly sometimes.

If you don't win games, it's difficult to enjoy and see the fun in football.

I was only one year at Newcastle, but that time there meant a lot to me. I met some great people who helped me to play good games in the Premier League, and it was because of them I got the move to Liverpool.

It's always a special game when you play against your previous club.

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A lot of these dips that you go through in the season, it's about persisting through the process and trusting it.

You can only control so much.

Nobody's immune from getting beat. If you're not aware of that, you really don't have a great perspective.

When you start lifting weights in the offseason in like November, you're like, 'Ah, I'm going to get this thing up so I can get to the World Series.'

For me, it's more about having fun out there and competing and trying to make a difference in the game in every aspect that I can.

I've always just kind of prided myself on just taking the ball and just trying to give your team a chance to win, and I really don't try to make it any more complicated than that.

What I've been able to do is pretty cool, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

When you dream as a little kid, you dream about storybook endings and storybook players and scenarios like that.

The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.

I just like to leave it out there and feel like I put in a good day's work.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

When they have the lead, you don't want to fall into too predictable counts because they're playing with house money at that point. You want to try to be creative and keep them off-balance as much as you can.

A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'

I think that's kind of the common theme when you talk about any good team. Not only do you have the talent and the type of players that allow you to win that many games, but you have to win the ugly ones.

You have to win the easy ones.

You have to win the grinders.

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

You get into a tough spot where you're not feeling good and you can't do what you're typically accustomed to doing, you just keep grinding.

Health is key.

If you can constantly just put pressure on all four quadrants, it gives you a little more leverage to be able to fill the zone up with breaking balls and fastball counts - or with breaking balls when guys are maybe sitting on the fastball that you've established.

The season is long. You go through aches and pains with your brothers. When it's on the line, you just want to give them - you know, you want to perform. You want to give them a shot to win the game.

Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.

It was a pleasure to play in Houston.

Altuve is just so good at that. He can decide halfway to the plate where he's going to place the ball. I've never seen that kind of talent before in my life, and I don't know if I'll ever see it again.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.

I feel like, by now, if you don't understand that the playoffs can be somewhat of a crapshoot sometimes, then you don't watch enough baseball.

We're out there pitching for wins, not for stat lines.