Quotes About Liverpool

#1. Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the system?

Stan Collymore

#2. I am thrilled to be joining a club as prestigious and successful as Liverpool.

Peter Crouch

#3. The only way to beat Liverpool is to score more goals than them.

Steve Claridge

#4. We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

Dave Mason

#5. The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable ... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

Derek Taylor

#6. I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.

Xabi Alonso

#7. I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.

Jamie Redknapp

#8. REGINALD BURNABY THE GREAT (variously identified as a defrocked Roman Catholic priest from Galway, an ex-convict from Liverpool, if not an escaped convict from that seaport city)

Joyce Carol Oates

#9. Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.

Bill Shankly

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

Gerard Houllier

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

Robbie Fowler

#12. Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

David Morrissey

#13. I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.

Wayne Rooney

#14. 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.

Bill Shankly

#15. Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.

Romesh Gunesekera

#16. The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

John Masefield

#17. My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

Mike Myers

#18. The only thing I want is the respect of the fans of Liverpool and the fans of the national team of Uruguay.

Luis Suarez

#19. I've been to Cardiff a few times but I'd love to get to Wembley. My son is six or seven years old and I'd love to take him to Wembley to watch Liverpool.

Jamie Carragher

#20. At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

Luis Suarez

#21. The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us.
(on Liverpool)

Steven Gerrard

#22. If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?

Ray Stubbs

#23. It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

Luis Suarez

#24. It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

Kenny Dalglish

#25. Kenny Dalglish was the greatest to play for Liverpool and Scotland, so for someone like that to sign me was an honour.

Charlie Adam

#26. When I was in the leverage buy-out business we bought Weetabix and we leveraged it up to make our return. You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool.

Tom Hicks

#27. I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.

David Moyes

#28. My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Bill Shankly

#29. We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.

Linda McCartney

#30. Liverpool will always be my home.

David Morrissey

#31. Oh, who would choose to be a traveler?
That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

Arthur Guiterman

#32. United won't fall asleep against Liverpool. They'll win it in their sleep

Paul Merson

#33. Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.

Jerzy Dudek

#34. Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

George Hamilton

#35. One of the things I keep reminding players is that when you're lost in a fog, you must stick together. Then you don't get lost. If there's a secret about Liverpool, that's it.

Bob Paisley

#36. I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.

Pete Best

#37. John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude

Ringo Starr

#38. We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

Pete Best

#39. 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.

Bill Shankly

#40. Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them

George Best

#41. In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

Paul McCartney

#42. Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run

Alan Parry

#43. Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you've met them before?

JoAnne Kenrick

#44. I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts.

Tim Hunt

#45. If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.

George Best

#46. I owe my mum a sense of family. She has kept our family together. I have two brothers and a sister, and they all live a stone's throw away from each other in Liverpool.

David Morrissey

#47. Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship

Erik Larson

#48. Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.

Luis Suarez

#49. I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.

Hasso Plattner

#50. My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.

Rafael Benitez

#51. For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.

Clayton Christensen

#52. Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.

Ian St. John

#53. When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

Paul McCartney

#54. The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to ... I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'

George Harrison

#55. Kenny wasn't the quickest of movers but he was 20 yards quicker than anybody else with his football brain and he would be in position before any defender knew what was happening. I've always said the best signing that Liverpool ever made was Kenny Dalglish.

Ronnie Moran

#56. My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

John Oliver

#57. I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

Jennifer Ellison

#58. Recalled Sir Edward Spears, the wartime liaison between Churchill and de Gaulle. We had 15,000 French sailors at Liverpool. I went to speak to them. I tried to persuade them to continue the fighting. Impossible ...

Charles Kaiser

#59. I hope when my time as Liverpool manager is over, I'm remembered as someone who improved the team and left the club in a better position than I inherited it.

Brendan Rodgers

#60. Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made,

Tom Hicks

#61. Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now!

Ian Callaghan

#62. 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.

Bill Shankly

#63. I didn't sleep with the European Cup but it was in my room! It was just special and I just had to have the cup with me, lifting the cup as Liverpool captain was just the best moment of my life.

Steven Gerrard

#64. The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

Katharine Lee Bates

#65. Sebastian Grey.
The worrds rang like a miserable moan in her head. On the list of men she ought not to be kissing, he had to rank at the top, along with the King, Lord Liverpool, and the chimney sweep.

Julia Quinn

#66. My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

Fernando Torres

#67. I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.

Ian Rush

#68. We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

Paul McCartney

#69. Kenny Dalglish would be my first choice for Liverpool's best ever player because he was a great player with a lot of qualities.

Rafael Benitez

#70. I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.

Cherie Blair

#71. People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

Ringo Starr

#72. 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

#73. My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that.

Alex Ferguson

#74. I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

Rhys Ifans

#75. I used to hate Ian Rush when I was young, because I was a devout Evertonian in those days, and he seemed to score every time Liverpool played against us. It's strange to think he used to support Everton too when he was a kid. He was brilliant to me at Anfield always giving me good advice.

Robbie Fowler

#76. Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

Sepp Blatter

#77. If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back.
(on re-signing for Liverpool)

Robbie Fowler

#78. Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

Vivienne Westwood

#79. They (Liverpool players) are passing the cup down the line like a new born baby. Although when they are back in the dressing room they will probably fill it with champagne, something you should never do to a baby.

Alan Parry

#80. My first season at Liverpool had good moments but also bad ones. We played three tournaments and we played two finals, and that was good.

Luis Suarez

#81. Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.

Bryan Robson

#82. And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

Ringo Starr

#83. 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

#84. And remember, Liverpool reserves are not just any team. Liverpool reserves are the second-best team in the land, son. The only team better than the Liverpool reserve team is the Liverpool first team.

David Peace

#85. Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

Carl Jung

#86. You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.

Vincent Tan

#87. Honest to god, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say.
(on playing for Liverpool again)

Robbie Fowler

#88. If you have a dad who supports Liverpool you always fucking think you can turn anything around. You know! Ever since that Champions League final.

Fredrik Backman

#89. I have no problem living in Liverpool, but I think my wife and daughters deserve to enjoy every day to the full and live their lives - but they have to be at home all day. My wife doesn't speak a word of English, so she depends 100% on me. I live here with them. That's my world, that's my life.

Javier Mascherano

#90. As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.

Jules Verne

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

Gerard Houllier

#92. Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.'

Ian Rush

#93. I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

Mike Myers

#94. Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.

David Pleat

#95. I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave,

Jamie Carragher

#96. at Birkenhead, near Liverpool, designed and built the world's first municipal park. This park so captivated the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted that he modeled Central Park in New York on it.

Bill Bryson

#97. Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool.

Michael Owen

#98. For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant ... I don't think I'd ever leave

Jamie Carragher

#99. At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.

Fernando Torres

#100. I've always liked Liverpool. I'd play a lot of video games, and I'd be them, because they played in red, like Independiente, my first club, Arsenal, or Chelsea.

Sergio Aguero