Houllier Quotes

#1. To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

Gerard Houllier

#2. Liverpool players must play like a lion, give his all. There must be determination, commitment and resolve to be a Liverpool player.

Gerard Houllier

#3. After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived

Robbie Fowler

#4. Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.

Jason Beghe

#5. I want to keep an English heart to the team. I believe in that. Michael Owen is that. Never think Michael is afraid of anything.

Gerard Houllier

#6. Why do people watch fights? ... They watch it for inspiration.

Greg Jackson

#7. We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.

Gerard Houllier

#8. Houllier couldn't deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions

Robbie Fowler

#9. When I see the Bill Shankly statue, I look at the sentiment on the base. It says: 'He made the people happy'. Well now the modern Liverpool is making the fans and the city happy. And that makes me so proud.

Gerard Houllier

#10. Government research has to go through peer review.

Peter Diamandis

#11. It is important for the club to find a balance in a world driven by economic and political needs. This club usually does that [on leaving Liverpool]

Gerard Houllier

#12. We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

Gerard Houllier

#13. ...17nastai hugshin emegtei...

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

Gerard Houllier

#15. Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,
I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

Heinrich Heine

#16. Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.

Gerard Houllier

#17. You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

Gerard Houllier

#18. You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.

Gerard Houllier

#19. Our job is to make the fans happy. When we win, 45,000 people go home happy. When we lose, it not only affects them, it affects their cats.

Gerard Houllier

#20. I think I can get five, six, seven more years out of this arm and these legs.

Ben Roethlisberger

#21. Felicity grimaced in agreement. No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one's butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.

Gail Carriger

#22. The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

Graham Greene

#23. There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

Gerard Houllier

#24. I used to stand on the Kop when I was here in 1969. The atmosphere and passion on the pitch as well as the terraces was intoxicating and Liverpool became part of me from that day on.

Gerard Houllier

#25. My philosophy is that the club is more important than anyone!

Gerard Houllier

#26. I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

Nancy Grace

#27. Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

Gerard Houllier

#28. Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

Carl Sandburg