Of course, as manager, the selection of the team is very much one of the biggest responsibilities I personally take, but I come to that decision thanks to advice and support of the people around me.

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.

Sacredness inspires respect.

I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion

If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

I have the most conservative position.

On days like today you realize that you just can't keep these hypergrowth stocks down.

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.