Every big player who leaves Arsenal is a massive loss. But no player here is bigger than the club.
He's a big player, and the big players score the big goals and make the big contributions in the big games. That's what determines a great player. That's what Steven Gerrard is.
If you want to be a big player and play for a big club, you have to deal with the pressure.
I was very surprised when Dhoni retired from Test cricket; I thought he would have kept playing. He is a big player and you need big players in big tournaments.
Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.
It's always hard the moment you decide to stop playing. It doesn't matter if you're at a small club or a big club: it's the end of your playing career, so that's always going to be a big moment for any player.
In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.
Dhoni is a big player. He's achieved a lot as a player and as a captain.
The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.
But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
Leaving a club like Real and coming to as big a club as Manchester United makes you grow as a player and helps you progress in your career.
I have been a big admirer of Coutinho, and he can be a very important player for Liverpool and Brazil.
I knew I had to try and win trophies and be successful and be a big player for Liverpool.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
A player can have all the quality and everything it takes to play for a big-six team or to play for the best teams in the world but then sometimes it happens and it doesn't work out. It's not because of the player or the club, sometimes it's just the environment, it's the wrong timing.
Chris Gayle is an incredible player. A big guy, with phenomenal power and a very big bat. It's quite the combo.