“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.”

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.

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.

Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.

Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.

Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.

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.

My life is my work. My work is my life

Nice, People, Bumps, Inocence, Always

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.

Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.

Unless you’re God, you are never too “big” to be a fan.

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O’Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Tempo … now there’s a big word.

All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

I don’t know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.