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.

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.

God is the only source of happiness and money

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Living is deeper than just life

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

No hero is mortal till he dies.