Top 100 Quotes About Liverpool
#1. In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.
Iain Duncan Smith
#2. It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
Ian Rush
#3. The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.
John Lennon
#4. The great thing about coming from where I come from - Liverpool and my family - is that we're very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids.
David Morrissey
#5. Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.
Fernando Torres
#6. Everton are a bigger club than Liverpool. Everywhere you go on Merseyside you bump into Everton supporters.
Graeme Souness
#8. I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.
Cilla Black
#9. I took a train to Liverpool. they were having a festival when I arrived. Citizens had taken time off from their busy activities to add crisp packets, empty cigarette boxes and carrier-bags to the other wise bland and neglected landscape.
Bill Bryson
#10. We grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. We didn't have much, but it was irrelevant. We played out a lot with all the kids on the street.
Rebecca Ferguson
#11. I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
Clive Owen
#12. My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
Patti Smith
#13. I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.
Charlie Adam
#14. You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
Fernando Torres
#15. We didn't have a strong drug scene by any means. Originally, it was just purple hearts, amphetamines, speed or whatever you want to call it. When The Beatles went down south, they sometimes brought back cannabis and gradually the drug scene developed in Liverpool.
Bob Wooler
#16. Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.
Pete Best
#17. It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.
Luis Suarez
#18. My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
Paul McCartney
#19. We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
Craig Charles
#20. No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton
Tim Cahill
#21. Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.
Bill Shankly
#22. My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.
Luis Suarez
#23. It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.
John Aldridge
#24. I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
Bill Shankly
#25. I never told you this but I always thought the club should have recognised you far more when you retired. For the career that you had, one of Liverpool's greatest players, you should have had a much bigger and better send-off in your final match. That's just what I felt.
Luis Suarez
#26. I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!
Kevin Keegan
#27. All we ever got in those [early] days was Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.
Paul McCartney
#28. A good day's filming at last ... John Horton's rabbit effects are superb. A really vicious white rabbit, which bites Sir Bor's head off. Much of the ground lost over the week is made up. We listen to the Cup Final in between fighting the rabbit
Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-0.
Michael Palin
#29. I think Liverpool have a long history with many great players. I hope one day to be up there with those great players. I'll try my best to write some history here.
Luis Suarez
#30. I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.
Ringo Starr
#31. An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.
Nick Hornby
#32. After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.
Fernando Torres
#33. It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League.
Luis Suarez
#34. As the official statistics would have it, if you're a young, single, white student who rents a flat in Liverpool and regularly visits pubs and clubs, the statistical chances of you not having taken an illegal drug in the last year would be slim to none. Conversely,
Max Daly
#36. I think Marseille is probably a place like Liverpool, very vibrant and very tough.
Zinedine Zidane
#37. When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.
Chris Lowe
#38. I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me.
Kenny Dalglish
#39. I'll never fully shake that sense of absolute impotence when destiny is at work. The feeling will cling to my feet forever, trying to pull me down. Even now if I mess up a pass, that malign force could be to blame. For that reason, I steer well clear of the DVD from the Liverpool game.
Andrea Pirlo
#40. My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.
Fernando Torres
#41. My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.
Rebecca Ferguson
#42. This city has two great teams - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
Bill Shankly
#43. I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
John Lennon
#44. I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.
Rhys Ifans
#46. Well the seaport, all seaports in Britain whether it's Glasgow or Newcastle or ... or Liverpool, any of the seaports, I've got this kind of knock about, beggar and the Lord will provide feeling about it.
Derek Taylor
#47. My head is in Liverpool and on helping save our season. I am professional and I always fulfil my deals. I haven't considered leaving, although in football that depends on the club.
Fernando Torres
#48. There till we reached Liverpool - I never saw him. His mother, after a little, at his request, left him alone.
Henry James
#49. Liverpool will be without Kvarme tonight - he's illegible.
Jimmy Armfield
#50. Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.
Thomas Keneally
#51. Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done' off Ronnie Moran, you must have played well ... They never used superlatives at Liverpool.
Paul Jewell
#52. Liverpool is a massive club and has obviously been very successful over the years.
Steven Gerrard
#53. It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.
Jamie Carragher
#54. Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.
Jamie Redknapp
#55. Liverpool is such a big club, and I was fortunate to be one of a select few to have played for them. It was an amazing time.
Charlie Adam
#56. The manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home in Barcelona and family in Barcelona to come to Liverpool shows how much faith I have in Rafael Benitez.
Luis Garcia
#57. I'm really happy in Liverpool and the club feels such a family. I feel great, I have a nice house and my family have been here from the beginning so they could help me.
Royston Drenthe
#58. I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
Ian Rush
#59. I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.
Kevin Keegan
#60. I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters.
Stephen Graham
#61. My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.
John Oliver
#62. There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
Ian Rush
#63. Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.
Alex Ferguson
#65. I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I'm disgusting. I can't play any more. I went to bed with Dudek and all his Liverpool team-mates.
Andrea Pirlo
#66. Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea.
Didier Drogba
#67. Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore
Brendan Rodgers
#68. We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.
Steven Gerrard
#69. When I was six, Hitler, who had become rather a nuisance, launched a sustained attempt to destroy Liverpool, and though we lived several miles from the vulnerable docks target, our Childwall suburb became too close for comfort and safety.
Brian Epstein
#70. I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.
Paul McCartney
#71. I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
Ringo Starr
#72. The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.
Kenny Dalglish
#73. I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.
Mark Roberts
#74. Not part of any London combination and you have to go a long way from London really to ... to throw that feeling off. So, it's right and fitting that the Beatles came from Liverpool. If they hadn't, I wouldn't have got involved. It wouldn't have interested me. And they wouldn't have hired me.
Derek Taylor
#75. The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head.
(to a Liverpool trainee)
Bill Shankly
#76. I am still a Liverpool fan and will be forever, absolutely
Xabi Alonso
#77. No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.
Timothy F. Cahill
#78. In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
Bill Shankly
#79. Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.
Paul Ince
#80. This is the best club in the world with the best fans, so I'm very proud to be a Liverpool player for the next four years and hopefully even longer.
Jamie Carragher
#81. Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say 'We're Liverpool'.
Bill Shankly
#82. You don't have to support Liverpool from the day you're born, Coach. You can learn to do it when you're grown up.
Fredrik Backman
#83. I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.
Paul Gascoigne
#84. I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.
Roger McGuinn
#85. I will always fight for my life for Liverpool, and that will be on and off the field.
Brendan Rodgers
#86. Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.
Fernando Torres
#87. Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.
Jose Mourinho
#88. To captain Liverpool in any game is special, but to do it in a final, would be one of the proudest moments of my life.
Jamie Carragher
#89. Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead.
David Coleman
#90. There's a snap about Liverpool that just isn't there.
Ron Atkinson
#91. Liverpool have played with no real convention
Ray Houghton
#92. Liverpool are one of the dynasties of the game. They have won five European Cups and their status is up there with AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Brendan
#93. Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'
Ron Atkinson
#94. My mum dated a guy from Liverpool. The Liverpool fans made up a song that she 'loves Scouse c*ck'
John Terry
#95. I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.
Bill Shankly
#96. Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. 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.
Bill Shankly
#97. 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
#98. I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.
Brendan Rodgers
#99. Liverpool really ever since I can remember, but anyway in the '50s and '60s was always a place where people were potentially in show business, knew someone who was, would like to be, had been but were now doing something else and there was a general recreational feeling in the air at all times.
Derek Taylor
#100. As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition.
Jon Landau
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