I meet regularly with my staff to ensure they are aware of what I want, but also to make sure they have the chance to influence the process and use all of their knowledge to help prepare the group.

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.

Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.

Most people are as happy as they want to be.

I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.

Anyone can notice wrong answers. It takes the creative person to notice the wrong questions.

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

Alec rolled beautiful brown eyes. "No fair playing the death card." "No fair having it to play.

The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.

It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.