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]

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

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

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

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.

My philosophy is that the club is more important than anyone!

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

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

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.

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

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

This life is our shared dream.We all may meet again in reality.

In the big scheme of things, it’s the little things that matter

The worth of a society is genuine if established on cardinal law of kingdom–love

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.

I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.