Steven Gerrard didn't hesitate when naming his two 'hardest' Liverpool teammates

Roy Keane, Vinnie Jones and Patrick Vieira. The Premier League has given us some of football's most infamous 'hard men' over the years, but who does Steven Gerrard rate at his toughest-ever teammate?

Gerrard, who scored 186 goals in 710 games for boyhood club Liverpool, shared the pitch with some seriously tough cookies during a 17-year spell at Anfield.

The former England international has previously listed off four Premier League legends – Roy Keane, Patrick Vieira, Paul Scholes and Frank Lampard – as the toughest players he played against.

But what about teammates? Speaking to BT Sport as he sat alongside Martin Keown, Robbie Savage and Jake Humphrey, Gerrard explained why Luis Suarez and Jamie Carragher were the hardest teammates he shared a dressing room with.

"I played with Luis Suarez, he never went in the treatment room," the former midfielder said. "He would often play on with injuries after being kicked all over the pitch. He'd have bruises all over the place but he'd be robust and available for every game. That tough for me."

Gerrard added: "Jamie Carragher was another one. He was robust, mentally strong. He'd also get kicked and would be straight back up. There's a lot of different ways to be tough as a footballer.

"I think, some of the ones that look tough and bounce around the football pitch acting tough are probably the ones that are not."

Gerrard has previously named Suarez as his greatest ever teammate over other candidates like Fernando Torres, Xabi Alonso and Javier Mascherano, to name just a few.

“I get asked this question all the time," he said when asked about his best teammate. “They’re both phenomenal [Torres and Suarez], but I’d say Suarez because he had everything. How long have you got to describe him?”

"I played with some top players, Xabi Alonso, Javier Mascherano, Fernando Torres, but Suarez was just different. You just felt that whoever you were playing, you had a feeling that he was going to win you the game, every game. It didn’t matter who it was."

Gerrard named Suarez as his greatest teammate. Image credit: Getty

“You knew from the first session or second session, it almost like he trained the way that he played," Gerrard added.

“I remember walking off one of the main sessions that we did with Carra and he was saying ‘this fella has got bundles, I don’t want to play against him every day in training’. He was that intense in training.

“He could embarrass you, even with stuff that I don’t think that he knew he was doing. He was a ricochet merchant, he would run over you, he’d dominate you and bully you."