“Anyone who scores a goal will get confidence from it, particularly if you are a striker because you live for goals and assists.”

“Football has always been my passion.”

“We are professionals and, if the boss chooses eleven players to enter the field, these are the ones who have to work.”

“When I first signed at Anfield, I was asked what my feeling was and I said, for it to be perfect, I had to play in a full stadium to have that even more special feeling.”

“I was always very small, especially at the beginning when I between 10 and 14.”

“The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.”

“The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.”

“Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.”

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”

“A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it's home or on the road.”

“The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round,Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound,Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam,Our arms are waving, our lips are apart.”

“Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.”

“Gentlemen, this is the football.”

“In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.”