In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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.
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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.
Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches – an incredible record – and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.
Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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.
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
I never drop a player I only make changes.