Steven Gerrard Last Quotations

I'm shocked, looking at the players that have won this award in the past and some of the unbelievable players involved last year,

There was a special atmosphere at the games last year. They're a fantastic team and it will be close.

There's a lot of confidence in the squad, a lot of togetherness and we're ready for this World Cup. We've got a lot of hungry players. And it could be a lot of players' last World Cup as well, so it's important that this group of players -- there's so much quality there -- and we need to deliver in the summer.

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

I fully intended to sign a new contract after the Champions League final, but the events of the last five or six weeks have changed all that.

There's no doubt we are a better team than we were last season when we won the European Cup, so let's just say that we aren't about to give up our trophy easily.

I'm not going to go through another summer like the last two. I'll be staying here until the day someone tells me they don't want me.

This time round, there's ... a good mix of youth and experience. It could be the likes of David Beckham and Gary Neville's last World Cup, so I think everyone's going to be desperate this time round to deliver.

The last six weeks have been the toughest of my life and it's the hardest decision I have ever had to make,