The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

Liverpool players must play like a lion, give his all. There must be determination, commitment and resolve to be a Liverpool player.

You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

I used to stand on the Kop when I was here in 1969. The atmosphere and passion on the pitch as well as the terraces was intoxicating and Liverpool became part of me from that day on.

My philosophy is that the club is more important than anyone!

We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

Our job is to make the fans happy. When we win, 45,000 people go home happy. When we lose, it not only affects them, it affects their cats.

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

It is important for the club to find a balance in a world driven by economic and political needs. This club usually does that [on leaving Liverpool]

Turn your self-hell into self-help.

I gave you up and died a little each day

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

We're all part of movie and we're all incredibly and equally important but it is your actor's job to perform and to deliver.

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.

A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.