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.
— Jamie Carragher
We're only human and when things aren't going well the confidence does go a little bit.
Everyone's different with different ways of doing things.
Centre-back is my best position. I think everyone is aware of that.
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.
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.
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.
Learning to be a Liverpool player comes with experience.
I like Tony Blair.
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?
We are constantly told to enjoy Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo before they retire but what about Arjen Robben?
The two managers I worked under longest are Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez. I have so much respect for the two of them.
I always thought just because I love football, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm desperate to manage.
Robben is truly world class, proving himself at the highest level in England, Spain, Germany and on the international stage.
It's all about winning trophies really.
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.
I've seen plenty of young lads elevated into the senior squad acting like they have made it.
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.
You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to.
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.
At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go.
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.
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.
As one of the lucky ones who could provide for my family, I also wanted to help those from my area.
It's been a privilege for me, really, to play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, an iconic club, an institution.
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.
In the past, you would have been classed as a sweeper if you were put in the middle of a three-man defence.
Nobody in football wants to receive sympathy.
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.
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.
I was an Evertonian as a kid, but I've never hated Man United. I've always had respect for them.
There's one thing I've never seen in a paper. Jamie Carragher linked with this or that club.
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.
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.
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.
We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well.
Every manager has his own ideas and different ways of doing things.
I've played for Liverpool's first-team pretty much every week for 16 years.
I don't mind a bit of cricket, but it has to be something massive like the Ashes.
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 no different to other working class players.
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.
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.
Managers can make themselves look strong by selling or dropping players, but if the move doesn't work, the choice looks flawed.
Arsene Wenger is a legend in the English game.
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.
Without Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, we would discuss Robben more often and with more appreciation.
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 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.
Has there ever been a Premier League star splitting opinion more than Mesut Ozil?
