If you want to be successful when you play, you have to be free in your mind, and that happens if you know that everything is taken care of - you just focus on the football.

Sadio Mane

Categorized in : You Football Mind Focus

We are Liverpool, we are strong, and we can beat any team in the world.

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I just try to work harder and harder every day to improve and get better and better.

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You have to believe in yourself and believe in what you are doing all the time.

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It makes it easy for a player when you've got really good teammates and when everyone wants the same thing.

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I'm someone who likes to listen, who likes to watch, and who likes to learn.

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I am different as soon as I am on the pitch, because I had to fight so much and work so hard to become a professional footballer, so I have to give everything that I can.

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I didn't dream about becoming a professional: I dreamed about becoming the best in the world.

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When you see the rival make a certain pass, you don't need to look behind you. You know 100 per cent that all your teammates will go with you.

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It's the rival that gives you the tempo depending on who is on the ball or who a pass is played to. That is the little secret.

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It was a normal childhood, like the childhoods of all children my age: going to school, playing in the street with friends, spending time at home with my family.

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Since I was two or three years old, I remember always being with the ball. I would see kids playing on the street, and would join them.

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I think everything is possible.

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I was born in a village where there had never been a footballer who'd made it in the major championships.

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I work in the gym; twice a week, I do abdominals. It is very, very important. I do quick sessions, as I don't want to get big.

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The power of Liverpool Football Club is the collective. We always do everything together; this is our power.

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Even when I was injured, I was always working hard.

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I am more focused on the games; things like contracts I leave with my agent.

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Officials are human beings, and sometimes we all make mistakes.

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I prefer Liverpool. The way we play is good for all of our players.

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I would prefer to play for and against an attacking team, but I am now used to playing against defensive teams.

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