Top 115 Quotes & Sayings by Jamie Carragher
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English athlete Jamie Carragher.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I like Tony Blair.
I always thought just because I love football, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm desperate to manage.
Would I - or any defender - tell the referee to give a penalty if I made a foul in the box but it was deemed a fair tackle? No chance.
Managers can make themselves look strong by selling or dropping players, but if the move doesn't work, the choice looks flawed.
Without Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, we would discuss Robben more often and with more appreciation.
It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.
People go on about how much players earn in the Premier League but once you've bought a nice house and car, what else is there to spend it on?
Anger and bad experiences used to fuel my performances, but it was horribly draining.
I've played for Liverpool's first-team pretty much every week for 16 years.
Players like people saying good things about them and, of course, no one is ever wrong when they do that, but they always are when they say bad stuff.
It's been a privilege for me, really, to play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, an iconic club, an institution.
The captain at international level has to be someone who is one of the first names on the team sheet, someone who has the respect of the other players and someone who has good leadership qualities.
For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract. To the pit of my stomach that just winds me up, it angers me.
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.
At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go.
It's all about winning trophies really.
If you want trophies, they don't get given to you, you have to earn them, you have to play well in big games.
I'm not massively into the screamers, because I think sometimes fellas just hit it and there's an element of luck over whether it flies into the top corner or over the bar.
Normally in the past whenever Everton have beaten Liverpool, the accusation was that they wanted it a little bit more.
Has there ever been a Premier League star splitting opinion more than Mesut Ozil?
There is pressure, and I would never complain about that, but as players we put pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one thing I won't miss when I finally stop playing.
We want to play a full year, July to July, because that will mean we've been successful.
You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to.
In knockout football, it's one bad game and you're out.
Nobody in football wants to receive sympathy.
We have all come to agree the modern players cannot be one-trick ponies, and we are especially critical of those who do not consistently produce in the biggest games.
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.
There's one thing I've never seen in a paper. Jamie Carragher linked with this or that club.
The reason Ozil has as many detractors as supporters is he is a bit of an anomaly - an elegant, skilful footballer who at his best evokes memories of the great number 10s from the past, but sometimes looks unsuited to the extra demands of a changing game at the very top.
The crowd, especially at Anfield, want us to win so much that it transmits itself down on to the pitch at times.
I was an Evertonian as a kid, but I've never hated Man United. I've always had respect for them.
If you'd asked me at the start of my career I would have said I was going to be a manager. I may still be in future, but there seemed to be an expectation it was a natural progression for me.
I think with my generation, your first game of senior football was often a Sunday League game of football. Sometimes you're playing on pitches that aren't great, you've no referee, you've no goal nets.
Arsene Wenger is a legend in the English game.
In the modern era, with the rewards the top players have during their career and the risks involved moving into management, more will look at it and say they don't need it.
You talk about results being more important than performances but, ideally, you want to put the two together.
I always think when you're in the Champions League, as a player, as a fan now, you're in that to come up against the biggest teams and the biggest names - that's what you want.
Learning to be a Liverpool player comes with experience.
Every manager has his own ideas and different ways of doing things.
I'm no different to other working class players.
Liverpool has always had speculation about managers, players, players coming, players going and it's the same as managers. That's part of being part of a big club, you always have that type of thing.
Don't get me wrong, the fans are great for us. But the fans, and the players, all of us together have to realise we have to be patient.
People always want to talk about the club, whether it is positively or negatively, and if you play for Liverpool you have got to get used to that as part of the job.
I don't mind a bit of cricket, but it has to be something massive like the Ashes.
Robben is truly world class, proving himself at the highest level in England, Spain, Germany and on the international stage.
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.
We are constantly told to enjoy Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo before they retire but what about Arjen Robben?
Well, when I wasn't playing with a football I used to play with 'Star Wars' figures as a kid. Hanging out with Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker is how I passed the time when I wasn't kicking a ball around.
I understand that we're paid a lot of money and we're in the limelight. When things don't go well, there's deserved criticism.
The top coaches want wide strikers who cut inside. They want playmaking midfielders who can play between the lines as well as perform their defensive duties.
Everyone's different with different ways of doing things.
As one of the lucky ones who could provide for my family, I also wanted to help those from my area.
In the past, you would have been classed as a sweeper if you were put in the middle of a three-man defence.
The two managers I worked under longest are Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez. I have so much respect for the two of them.
We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well.
Rafa Benitez - man with huge experience who knew how the club operated - could not get the results Real wanted and couldn't walk away from the fights that erupted in the dressing room and the boardroom.
I've seen plenty of young lads elevated into the senior squad acting like they have made it.
We're only human and when things aren't going well the confidence does go a little bit.
When Robben joined Chelsea in 2004 nobody realised how good he was. He was seen as an excellent player rather than a world-class one, and he suffered a lot with injuries. In the years since, he has elevated his game.
Centre-back is my best position. I think everyone is aware of that.
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