I'll do everything I can to get West Ham as far up the table as I can.
I wish to play again for West Ham before I finish my career.
I think I'm capable of doing the job at any club in the world, so I'm sure I can do it at West Ham.
I always wanted to be one of the best players in the world like Zinedine Zidane, so it was great that I ended up playing at West Ham against some of the best players in the world.
When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it's 10 years at West Ham, you're leading the team out every week, when you sit back and really think about it, it's very rare.
I was at Arsenal as an 11-year-old. I really enjoyed it but I was at school and my dad used to drive me there after work. Sometimes we were in traffic for two hours. They wanted to keep me but I wasn't getting home until nearly 11 P. M. I loved it there but it wasn't right, so I came to West Ham and haven't looked back.
I was walking along somewhere in the Maldives and there were West Ham fans there. It's crazy.
When I left Liverpool, my aim was to get into the top six, and I was looking for a team that could get involved at that level. West Ham were brilliant at the time. They'd signed a lot of players, had a lot of money. But they've had problems since then.
I'm really happy that West Ham and Manuel Pellegrini have given me a chance to be playing again.
Pellegrini was the biggest factor for me to be joining West Ham.
It was the case that I wanted to go. Not because I don't like West Ham, but because I need to have minutes on the pitch.
This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match is about two teams playing. I told Big Sam, they need points. To come here the way they did, is that acceptable? Maybe it is, they need points. The only thing I could bring more was Black & Decker - a Black & Decker to destroy the West Ham wall.
For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.
You want to play in the Premier League, full stop. You don't want to play in the Championship. I've played there and I don't want to play there again for West Ham.
I don't think I will fully appreciate it until I have retired. My dad will ring me after a game and if we've lost it's the end of the world for me but he will say: 'I don't think you realise - you are captain of West Ham, you grew up supporting the club.'
I came to QPR looking for a new challenge after six years at West Ham, a wonderful time capped off by promotion at Wembley.
Without a doubt, the plan was always to stay at West Ham.
At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.
I've had a bond with West Ham since growing up as a kid, going to Upton Park, looking up to the players.
I have very special memories of the West Ham fans.
I hope that the future is great for West Ham.
I love every minute of being at West Ham.
I actually had the chance to sign for Newcastle before I went to West Ham; I didn't in the end because they had got rid of their reserve team. There were a few clubs interested but I liked what West Ham had to offer and never regretted signing for them, I loved it straight away.
To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it - it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.
West Ham was the best choice for me on the back of my best season in Ligue 1. I don't think there was much room left for progress in Ligue 1.
