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.
Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
It’s the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.
We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.
Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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.
I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win.
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.
Denis Law could dance on eggshells.
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.
I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.