Quotes About The Kop

#1. 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

#2. Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Plutarch

#3. 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

#4. To rule without being felt ... is the great mystery of policy.

John Galt

#5. I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

J.G. Holland

#7. Wherever there's a conductor, you're sure to find a dead composer!

Daniel Handler

#8. Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

Bayard Taylor

#9. I would just love to have gone and stood in the Kop.

Kenny Dalglish

#10. You don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much. (The Blind Assassin, 137).

Margaret Atwood

#11. 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

#12. How can thinking about the misery of others help if you're miserable yourself

Anne Frank