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.

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.

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

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.

The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

If you don't think it's safe, it probably isn't.

I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.

But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.

People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.