Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

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 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.

Only this time, now that she knew what it felt like to kiss him, she didn’t want to slap that look off his face, she wanted to kiss it off.

The emotional brain existed long before the rational brain.

My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.