The best players want to play in the best competition.

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.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. ("Miss Esperson")

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

A glass is good and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.

[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot.

not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

One hates an author that's all author.

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.