Bill Shankly
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.Collection: Football
I’m just one of the people who stands on the Kop. They think the same as I do, and I think the same as they do. It’s a kind of marriage of people who like each other.Collection: Thinking
I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.Collection: Team
I've had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne. He wasn't flashy and he wouldn't score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest. Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn't look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he'd given everything he had for 90 minutes.Collection: Eye
I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.Collection: Football
Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.Collection: Loyal
It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.Collection: Soccer
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.Collection: Soccer
Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.Collection: Proud
Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.Collection: Team
I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.Collection: Determination
Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game's truly great players.Collection: Player
I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.Collection: Clubs
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in.Collection: Men
Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.Collection: Football
I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.Collection: Football