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Well the Kop's exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you've got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they're united and loyal.
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts?
(after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.
He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one.
(about Ian St John)
Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son.
(to Kevin Keegan)
Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.
Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.
It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
I've had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne. He wasn't flashy and he wouldn't score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest. Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn't look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he'd given everything he had for 90 minutes.
I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
If he isn't named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin.
(on Tommy Smith)
Don't worry, Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team.
(to Alan Ball, who'd just signed for Everton)
We murdered them 0-0.
Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say 'We're Liverpool'.
Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried.
I'm a people's man - only the people matter.
The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life.
My life is my work. My work is my life
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.
At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.
If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win
Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don't know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.
Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game's truly great players.
The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That's how I see football, that's how I see life.
The socialism I believe in isn't really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other, everyone helping each other, and everyone having a share of the rewards at the end of the day. That might be asking a lot, but it's the way I see football and the way I see life.
First is first,Second is nothing
I never drop a player I only make changes.
When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along
Some people believe that football[soccer] is a matter of life and death. I'm very dissappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
A lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.
Some people believe football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in.
One day in 1959, when Huddersfield were playing Cardiff City, Tom (T.V.) Williams, who was then chairman of Liverpool, and Harry Latham, a director, came down the slope at Leeds Road to see me.
Mr Williams said, 'How would you like to manage the best club in the country?'
'Why, is Matt Busby packing it up?' I asked.
Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal.
(after signing Ron Yeats)
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.
I don't drop players. I make changes.
F you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared
to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.
I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.