“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.”

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.

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

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.

The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

Nowadays people don’t know how to handle it if all the ends aren’t tied up and they’re not told what to think in films. And if they’re challenged, they think it’s something wrong with the film.

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn’t all the water gush out when you get in?

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.