I'd rather lose a game trying to win it, than lose it trying not to get beat

I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore

It's not always plain sailing... especially when you're flying!

The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.

My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, "We're just the mayonnaise."

Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.