“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.”

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.

What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)

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.

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.

Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

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.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!

The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.

Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.

Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.

Me having no education. I had to use my brains.

He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)

Remember I’ve seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I’ve seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn’t score. So what does that say?

You know, in ten years you’re gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked

Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper’s arm.

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.