You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.
Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.
No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.
If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.
I'm looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It's a special club.
It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.
There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.
I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.