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I'll argue with the owners all day long when they do not allow the players to get the best.
I have a wealth of experience, but I do not want to coach. I rather like the role of recruiter.
If I do something, I do it with the idea to get to the top - without that, I would stop living.
I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories.
To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.
You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life. (after not being picked starting goalie)
I dream of going to coach in Europe and England once I have done my apprenticeship here in Africa.
Rotation should be natural and changes should be made only when there are injuries and suspensions.
Even though the Premier League is a special league, I have always wanted to stay loyal to Juventus.
Petr Cech is one of the finest goalkeepers I have seen and he has proved that in the Premier League.
The pitch is the most beautiful part of the game; it gives you emotions which bring meaning to life.
How do I imagine my last-ever game? Maybe I'll go out like Zidane, headbutting someone on the pitch!
Everyone gets scared from time to time. It's totally normal, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
If you're going to do a spaghetti legs routine where else but in Rome to do it. The home of spaghetti!
It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it
In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.
In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.
Liverpool is a family, it is not a club, you don't come in and out of this club without it leaving a mark.
I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.
If Alisson stays at Liverpool long enough he could break all the records that myself and Ray Clemence achieved.
I took what I've been given, and I got where I did on the basis of something that is often undervalued - merit.
On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.
There was a tradition of keepers at Anfield to play as a sweeper, going back to Tommy Lawrence under Bill Shankly.
I mentioned that Mignolet is bad at coming for crosses and as soon as that went into the newspapers, he got better.
I don't give advice, because I always made my own mistakes and would only be adding further chaos to the situation.
He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.
If a goalkeeper can save you 15-20 points a season, his value is high. It's like a striker scoring 20 goals a season.
I'm happy to be alive and to play any sport and, really, I wouldn't mind working for a living and playing at weekends.
I would say that I am having less sex now that I’m playing in Serie B – there is more to think about in this division.
I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.
Losing a game is not a tragedy after experiencing border raids and having to eat beetles because you are out of rations.
Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really.
Anyone who comes out of Brazil at a young age and comes over to Europe has got to have a big heart and a big personality.
Since myself and a few others like Pepe Reina, we haven't had a goalkeeper who has commanded his area as well as Alisson.
Looking back and knowing what I do, I believe the people who started the initial surge at Heysel were not Liverpool fans.
I was 12 when I turned my back on my goal. And I will keep doing it as long as my legs, my head, and my heart will allow.
I have been called a clown in football - but if I don't go onto the field with a laugh and smile, I shouldn't be doing it.
If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.
I started to play, like all kids do, not as a goalkeeper. I liked scoring goals; in the end, it's all about scoring goals.
The important thing is to be ready when the team needs me. As long as I can do that, I consider myself satisfied and happy.
Ray Clemence was the best in the world at having nothing to do for 89 minutes and then in the 90th minute making a great save.
We were taught in school that there was a fundamental difference between black people and white people - that we were superior.
For Premier League games, you get people coming from all over, paying big money to get into the games as part of a weekend away.
They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't.
Even if I were offered twice my salary elsewhere, I would stay at Juve. Doing so would make me proud, as it is a worthy thing to do.
I had a couple of agents, but then I went on my own. I thought I could negotiate my own deals and it was probably my biggest mistake.
In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you're going to get the foul.
When Jurgen Klopp came to Liverpool I was ecstatic. I knew his pedigree and what he did at Borussia Dortmund. What a job he did there.
Liverpool manager Bob Paisley signed me from Crewe in 1981. We were the champions in my first season and I went on to win many honours.
I can no longer understand what the parameters are for valuing a player. It's all too random and in the hands of whoever has more money.