Sturridge on goals, Torres and ambition
When Liverpool depart their team hotel for the Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday afternoon, it'll signal the start of a pre-match ritual that has helped Daniel Sturridge devastate defences all season long.
His teammates will have come to expect few words from the England striker as he focuses all his concentration on his mobile phone.
The reason? Sturridge will be reliving some his finest moments from the campaign so far as he gets himself in the mood for the Reds' latest challenge.
"I watch all my goals before every game on the coach," he explained. "My favourite was the header at Everton. I like scoring headers and every time I watch that Everton goal I get the same feeling.
"I watch the goals on my phone to get me in the mood and to give myself a vision of how I want the game to go. I have got more clips as the season has gone on but that's good.
"I will do the same routine against Cardiff. The clips last around 15-20 minutes now, which is normally the time of the coach ride to a stadium so it is perfect."
And then?
"After that in the changing room, I will be dancing and joking," continued Sturridge. "A lot of players are straight faced and serious and some are the opposite.
"It's like that until about 10 minutes before kick-off, then I'm in the zone and there is no more joking about."
Since arriving at Anfield from Chelsea in January 2013, Sturridge has struck an astonishing 32 goals in just 41 appearances.
He admits the decision to join Liverpool wasn't a hard one - and the words of two former Reds made it even easier.
"When we were at Chelsea together Fernando Torres would always say Liverpool is amazing, always," said Sturridge. "Yossi Benayoun was the same.
"They both said it was the best club they had played for and that the fans will make you feel amazing. It was an easy decision to come here."
Since then, Sturridge hasn't looked back - but he's not satisfied just yet.
"It has definitely been a perfect fit," he admits. "Before I came I discussed the move with my dad and uncle, as a family, but mainly my dad and my uncle. My uncle said, 'It's the best place for you to go.' My dad and I shared the same opinion, that it was the perfect fit.
"When the club came in I just wanted to get up the M6, sign on the dotted line and get to work. The appeal was in building something up and I was desperate to get here and show what I could do. I was hungry and I am still hungry.
"There is so much for us to achieve and we have not achieved anything yet. We have not achieved anywhere near what I want to achieve and I am sure the rest of the players feel the same. But we are going in the right direction and even though we have done so well this season, there is still a lot more to do."
Sturridge's goals have helped fire Liverpool to second place in the Barclays Premier League table heading into the final straight of the campaign.
The 24-year-old, however, is firmly embracing the 'focus on next game only' mentality that has served the Reds so well this season.
"When I came here it was a dream of course to be involved in winning titles, because that's part of the history of the club," said Sturridge.
"If we win it then great and I would be lying if I said I didn't want to, but at the same time it's going to be very difficult isn't it? At the beginning of the season the aim for everyone was to get into the Champions League. Now we're getting towards the business end and we're up there, a lot of people's perception is that maybe we can win the league.
"There are others in a better position than us so we just have to take each one as it comes and see where we end up."