Quotes about Liverpool

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that. Votes: 5

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes. Votes: 5

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born. Votes: 5

No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance. Votes: 5

Liverpool will always be my home. Votes: 4

People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know. Votes: 4

Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live. Votes: 4

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool. Votes: 4

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs. Votes: 4

Everton are a bigger club than Liverpool. Everywhere you go on Merseyside you bump into Everton supporters. Votes: 4

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party. Votes: 4

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up. Votes: 4

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students. Votes: 4

I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar. Votes: 4

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene. Votes: 4

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler. Votes: 4

Liverpool have played with no real convention Votes: 3

Lady luck is trying his best for Liverpool Votes: 3

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool. Votes: 3

I'm born in Liverpool, I'm a Liverpool supporter. Votes: 3

Liverpool will be without Kvarme tonight - he's illegible. Votes: 3

Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run Votes: 3

If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate. Votes: 3

There's a snap about Liverpool that just isn't there. Votes: 3

Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made, Votes: 3

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police. Votes: 3

Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2' Votes: 3

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high. Votes: 3

Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool. Votes: 3

Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the system? Votes: 3

United won't fall asleep against Liverpool. They'll win it in their sleep Votes: 3

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan. Votes: 3

How can I think of leaving Liverpool after a night like this? Votes: 3

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation. Votes: 3

The only way to beat Liverpool is to score more goals than them. Votes: 3

My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser. Votes: 3

I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool. Votes: 3

I am thrilled to be joining a club as prestigious and successful as Liverpool. Votes: 3

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops. Votes: 3

I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool. Votes: 3

I love Liverpool. The people are wonderful and I feel very much at home there. Votes: 3

Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea. Votes: 3

The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here. Votes: 3

Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool. Votes: 3

I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me. Votes: 3

I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time. Votes: 3

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley. Votes: 3

Everyone is going to be talking about Chelsea and Liverpool but the others are very tough teams. Votes: 3

I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving. Votes: 3

I can't stand Liverpool. I can't stand the people. I can't stand anything to do with them. Votes: 3

It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League. Votes: 3

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football. Votes: 3

I will always fight for my life for Liverpool, and that will be on and off the field. Votes: 3

The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee) Votes: 3

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey. Votes: 3

At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart. Votes: 3

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life. Votes: 3

Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead. Votes: 3

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance. Votes: 3

I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool. Votes: 3

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff. Votes: 3

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived Votes: 3

My mum dated a guy from Liverpool. The Liverpool fans made up a song that she 'loves Scouse c*ck' Votes: 3

It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy. Votes: 3

If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at? Votes: 3

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. Votes: 3

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened. Votes: 3

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand. Votes: 3

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool) Votes: 3

Liverpool players must play like a lion, give his all. There must be determination, commitment and resolve to be a Liverpool player. Votes: 3

No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton Votes: 3

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager. Votes: 3

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge. Votes: 3

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year. Votes: 3

Kenny Dalglish was the greatest to play for Liverpool and Scotland, so for someone like that to sign me was an honour. Votes: 3

The only thing I want is the respect of the fans of Liverpool and the fans of the national team of Uruguay. Votes: 3

My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded. Votes: 3

I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. Votes: 3

Honest to god, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say. (on playing for Liverpool again) Votes: 3

Kenny Dalglish would be my first choice for Liverpool's best ever player because he was a great player with a lot of qualities. Votes: 3

It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more. Votes: 3

I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool. Votes: 3

I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave, Votes: 3

Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about. Votes: 3

My first season at Liverpool had good moments but also bad ones. We played three tournaments and we played two finals, and that was good. Votes: 3

There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about. Votes: 3

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village. Votes: 3

To be really successful and win a title with a great club like Liverpool would be 100% one of the greatest things I could ever imagine. Votes: 3

I have a fantastic respect for Liverpool the city, club and the fans, from the time I spent there. That respect will always be there. Votes: 3

To captain Liverpool in any game is special, but to do it in a final, would be one of the proudest moments of my life. Votes: 3

I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in a Liverpool accent. Votes: 3

I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer. Votes: 3

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha! Votes: 3

Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked. Votes: 3

Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them Votes: 3

Liverpool is such a big club, and I was fortunate to be one of a select few to have played for them. It was an amazing time. Votes: 3

If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back. (on re-signing for Liverpool) Votes: 3

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] Votes: 3

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice. Votes: 3

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer. Votes: 3

When you leave a club like Liverpool, you have to go somewhere you'll feel comfortable and progress as a player. To come to Stoke was an easy decision. Votes: 3

You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City. Votes: 3

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice. Votes: 3

I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts. Votes: 3

Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that. Votes: 3

For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't think I'd ever leave Votes: 3

My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me. Votes: 3

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it. Votes: 3

This is the best club in the world with the best fans, so I'm very proud to be a Liverpool player for the next four years and hopefully even longer. Votes: 3

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour. Votes: 3

I hope when my time as Liverpool manager is over, I'm remembered as someone who improved the team and left the club in a better position than I inherited it. Votes: 3

All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool. Votes: 3

For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side. Votes: 3

Liverpool are one of the dynasties of the game. They have won five European Cups and their status is up there with AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Votes: 3

Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did. Votes: 3

My head is in Liverpool and on helping save our season. I am professional and I always fulfil my deals. I haven't considered leaving, although in football that depends on the club. Votes: 3

I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money. Votes: 3

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians. Votes: 3

I will leave no stone unturned in my quest - and that quest will be relentless - to try and get Liverpool back on the map again as a successful football club. Votes: 3

When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed. Votes: 3

The great thing about coming from where I come from - Liverpool and my family - is that we're very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids. Votes: 3

The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool. Votes: 3

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness. Votes: 3

I've got my own targets... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case. Votes: 3

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico. Votes: 3

One of the things I keep reminding players is that when you're lost in a fog, you must stick together. Then you don't get lost. If there's a secret about Liverpool, that's it. Votes: 3

I've been to Cardiff a few times but I'd love to get to Wembley. My son is six or seven years old and I'd love to take him to Wembley to watch Liverpool. Votes: 3

I owe my mum a sense of family. She has kept our family together. I have two brothers and a sister, and they all live a stone's throw away from each other in Liverpool. Votes: 3

I'm really happy in Liverpool and the club feels such a family. I feel great, I have a nice house and my family have been here from the beginning so they could help me. Votes: 3

You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game. Votes: 3

Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure. Votes: 3

Well the seaport, all seaports in Britain whether it's Glasgow or Newcastle or... or Liverpool, any of the seaports, I've got this kind of knock about, beggar and the Lord will provide feeling about it. Votes: 3

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester. Votes: 3

I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today. Votes: 3

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. Votes: 3

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south. Votes: 3

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver. Votes: 3

Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done' off Ronnie Moran, you must have played well... They never used superlatives at Liverpool. Votes: 3

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes. Votes: 3

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that. Votes: 3

I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now! Votes: 3

We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now. Votes: 3

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season. Votes: 3

As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition. Votes: 3

I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked. Votes: 3

The manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home in Barcelona and family in Barcelona to come to Liverpool shows how much faith I have in Rafael Benitez. Votes: 3

They (Liverpool players) are passing the cup down the line like a new born baby. Although when they are back in the dressing room they will probably fill it with champagne, something you should never do to a baby. Votes: 3

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles. Votes: 3

John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude Votes: 3

I didn't sleep with the European Cup but it was in my room! It was just special and I just had to have the cup with me, lifting the cup as Liverpool captain was just the best moment of my life. Votes: 3

I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany. Votes: 3

When I see the Bill Shankly statue, I look at the sentiment on the base. It says: 'He made the people happy'. Well now the modern Liverpool is making the fans and the city happy. And that makes me so proud. Votes: 3

If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both. Votes: 3

Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated. Votes: 3

Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say 'We're Liverpool'. Votes: 3

Kenny wasn't the quickest of movers but he was 20 yards quicker than anybody else with his football brain and he would be in position before any defender knew what was happening. I've always said the best signing that Liverpool ever made was Kenny Dalglish. Votes: 3

We didn't have a strong drug scene by any means. Originally, it was just purple hearts, amphetamines, speed or whatever you want to call it. When The Beatles went down south, they sometimes brought back cannabis and gradually the drug scene developed in Liverpool. Votes: 3

Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.' Votes: 3

I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one. Votes: 3

When I was in the leverage buy-out business we bought Weetabix and we leveraged it up to make our return. You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool. Votes: 3

Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map. Votes: 3

The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to...I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you' Votes: 3

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in. Votes: 3

An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'. Votes: 3

Red is our color. (on Liverpool) Votes: 2

FC Liverpool is the best club in the world. Votes: 2

I'm not going to another club to hurt Liverpool. Votes: 2

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore Votes: 2

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine. Votes: 2

I am still a Liverpool fan and will be forever, absolutely Votes: 2

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. Votes: 2

I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool! Votes: 2

Liverpool is a massive club and has obviously been very successful over the years. Votes: 2

I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is. Votes: 2

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed. Votes: 2

My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that. Votes: 2

Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him. Votes: 2

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them. Votes: 2

Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn't that a possible recipe for disaster for the future? Votes: 2

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! Votes: 2

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me. Votes: 2