I enjoy supporting projects involving disadvantaged young people and people with disabilities.

You always have to believe in yourself! I think that is the most important thing.

Of course, sometimes you are tired and everything, but I think the most important thing is the mentality - if you say you are fit and want to go, then you can go every game.

Jurgen Klopp is certainly a great coach. I think he has demonstrated at Dortmund that he can suit any team in the world.

I know Schweinsteiger very well, and I used to play with him. He's a very good guy and a legend.

If you play for Liverpool, for such a big club, it is always the target: it has to be always to win silverware.

You can learn being off the pitch. If you are sitting in the stands, you can see how the whole team plays.

I say always that the Premier League is the best league in the world, and it's an honour to play here.

I think all coaches have their own way of doing things.

When you play football, you have to do a lot of running.

It's difficult to go out when there is a match every third day. There isn't that much time - it's either preparation or recovery - and I would rather spend my time with friends at home.

A piece of my heart will always be with Liverpool.

I came to Leverkusen as a very young player and didn't have many Bundesliga games back then. I wasn't well known.

Liverpool FC is a great club, and the fans are amongst the best in the world.

I want to become a world-class player.

The Premier League is just a really cool league, the most interesting in the world, but you must always respect other big clubs and leagues.

Steven Gerrard doesn't play because his name is Steven Gerrard. He plays because of what he brings in terms of performances. If that wasn't the case, he wouldn't play. He is as good as he was, and I have learned a lot from him.

The position in the middle of the field is the position I'm most comfortable with and where I can improve the most.

I'm trying to get the best out of myself.

You can only advise young players to make the step to Liverpool.

It's not always easy to come to the national team and be on the bench.

I try to show myself at Liverpool, and when I come to the national team, I try to show myself in training or in games.

Sadio is a world-class player. He has so many qualities. He's a very strong player; he's a very quick player. He's always scoring goals and creating chances for the team.

I am a completely different player to Ballack and Schweinsteiger. I admire the careers they have had - I hope mine will be like theirs - but I am not the same.

I want to go my own way - to build my own career. To be known as Emre Can.

I want to make it very clear that I have nothing at all against Bayern. They gave me lot of good things, a good education, and it was my decision to leave.

I always have a drive to take me forward offensively, regardless of what position I am playing.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

Football is like that - sometimes you have good times, sometimes you have bad times.

When you have a new manager, and everything is new, it gives every team a lift.

Any move is a risk. Nothing is guaranteed in football.

For years, Ireland used to have a philosophy of 'Get them in here to invest and develop in Ireland, and this will sort out our problems.' It is good in the sense of building a trade surplus, but we also want to develop what it is that we offer ourselves and that Irish companies export abroad.

COP 21 provides a unique opportunity for the political leaders of this generation to provide lasting foundations for the preservation and sustainability of generations of the future.

Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland's corporate tax rate: it is 12.5%. End of story.

I don't take myself too seriously, but I take the job very seriously, and I expect people to do the job that they're given because this is about all our people, young and old, and it's an enormous responsibility.

I'm a big fan of Springsteen. Obviously, his social commentary is very powerful for me. I like his album 'The Rising.' It's not a new one, but it sticks in my mind because of what it says to me.

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

My wife, Fionnuala, and I have been married for more than 20 years.

We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.

We link our future to the euro, to the euro zone, and to the European Union while being the nearest neighbor of the United Kingdom with, obviously, a common travel area and a very close working relationship with the U.K.

The decision of a majority of people in the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union is profoundly disappointing.

Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in the Ryan and Murphy Reports.

We are going to serve our full term; there will be no snap election, and we are going to do our best to ensure that 2016 is going to be a good economic year.

It is the young people in whom I place my confidence because of their competence, because of their enthusiasm, because of their capacity to meet the frontiers that are changing every week.

Our revenue commissions are very happy and very clear that they showed no sweetheart deals and no preference for any company and never do and never have and never will.

I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.

My relationship with Alan Shatter is a professional relationship: obviously worked with him over the years, complimented him for his work as a reforming minister, and move on.

I get on very well with Denis Naughten, absolutely.

Our common membership of the E.U. provided an important external context to the Irish and U.K. governments working together for peace. It should not be discounted lightly.

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.