Houllier's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The future is just a projection of the past.

Vivake Pathak

#3. Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.

E. Stanley Jones

#4. Magic is in simplicity. Simplicity is the ultimate expression of beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I wanted to do a book on donuts...Maybe this dream will be book number three, after the Fault in Our Starburst: a Brief History of the Yellow Ones.

Sammy Rhodes

#6. I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

Vince Neil

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

Gerard Houllier

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

Gerard Houllier

#9. 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

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

Gerard Houllier

#11. Finally I closed my eyes and opened them again, and I smiled very gently at the creature.

Anne Rice

#12. I love the smell of Chai Tea in the morning... (What should have been said in "Apocalypse Now")

Sakinaa Davies

#13. Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

Sylvia Earle

#14. We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

Donald Miller

#15. In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.

Ryu Murakami

#16. I don't usually look people in the eye when I have sex with them."
"Why not?"
"Apparently it makes me fall in love with them.

Olivia Cunning

#17. 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

#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. 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

#20. 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

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

Gerard Houllier

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

Gerard Houllier

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Robbie Fowler

#26. Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

Jane Roberts

#27. So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

Samuel Gompers

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

Gerard Houllier

#29. Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

Selma Lagerlof

#30. 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

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

Robbie Fowler

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

Gerard Houllier