Jamie Carragher Quotes

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Jamie Carragher

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 28, 1978

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.

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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.

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I've played for Liverpool's first-team pretty much every week for 16 years.

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At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go.

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Centre-back is my best position. I think everyone is aware of that.

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Every manager has his own ideas and different ways of doing things.

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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.

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Everyone's different with different ways of doing things.

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We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well.

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We're only human and when things aren't going well the confidence does go a little bit.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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You talk about results being more important than performances but, ideally, you want to put the two together.

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Normally in the past whenever Everton have beaten Liverpool, the accusation was that they wanted it a little bit more.

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The crowd, especially at Anfield, want us to win so much that it transmits itself down on to the pitch at times.

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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.

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We want to play a full year, July to July, because that will mean we've been successful.

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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.

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