The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.

Under the seams runs the pain.

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.