John
Aldridge
on Orlando, Florida during the mega-hot World Cup, 1994 :
"It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the
Mersey."
Anfield
badge (1990) :
"There's only one United - the biscuit."
Phil
Boersma on the moment Souness told him that he was having a heart bypass
:
"He's a vain bastard,
I thought he was going to tell me that he was having a nose job."
Ian
Callaghan on Ronnie Moran :
"I don't know how I would have managed without him.
It was a big step up playing in the first team, and I don't know how I would have coped without someone keeping an eye
on me and helping me out of difficult situations. I soon learned that at
Liverpool, we were essentially part of a team and
depended on each
other."
Avi
Cohen to Kenny Dalglish on the day that Cohen joined the club :
"You, me, same."
Dalglish, perplexed, just nodded. But when the next day Cohen said the
same thing.
Dalglish said, "What are you talking about, Avi?" "You,
me, same. Both learn English."
Ray
Clemence :
"Sometimes I feel I'm hardly wanted in this Liverpool team.
If I get two or three saves to make I've had a busy day."
Kenny
Dalglish :
"The people who come to watch us play, who love the team and regard it as part of their lives,
would never appreciate Liverpool having a huge balance in the bank.
They want every asset we possess to be wearing a red shirt."
Roy
Evans :
"I've been on this planet for 45 years,
and have supported Liverpool for 42 of them."
Roy
Evans :
"Anfield without European football is like a banquet without wine."
Roy
Evans on Ian Rush's 600th Liverpool appearance :
"He's better than Brian Lara because he's 600 not out. What a
guy."
Roy
Evans on why he didn't buy Chris Sutton, 1994 :
"If I'd agreed to pay a 21-year-old who hadn't played for
England 12,000 pounds, I would have had 10 guys knocking on
my door saying that they were full internationals and that they wanted the same
money."
Roy
Evans on Kevin Keegan at Newcastle, 1994 :
"There's a bit of Shank's in his mannerisms.
He gives one hundred percent, and if he believes in something he'll go to the ends of the earth to
achieve it."
Robbie
Fowler :
"Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting"
Robbie
Fowler on how he celebrated the above feat, 1993 :
"After the Fulham game, I went round the chippy with my mates and got a big kiss from my mum when I got
home!"
Bruce
Grobbelaar :
"Bruce Grobbelaar will play on until he is 40 - and at the top
level."
Joe
Lovejoy on Bruce Grobbelaar :
"The elastic eccentric."
Emlyn
Hughes :
"Liverpool are magic .... Everton are tragic."
Paul
Ince :
"I love tackling. It's better than sex."
Kevin
Keegan :
"The only thing I fear is missing an open goal in front of the Kop.
I would die if that were to happen.
When they start singing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' my eyes start to water.
There have been times when I've actually been crying while I've been
playing".
Kevin
Keegan :
"They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing
like him,
but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different."
Kevin
Keegan as Newcastle manager :
"Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to
Newcastle.
With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary
millionaire."
Ray
Kennedy former Liverpool and England player, who has Parkinson's disease
:
"I don't want people to feel sorry for me. I'm not a cripple.
There are many worse off."
Bob
Paisley on Billy Liddell :
"Bill was so strong it was unbelievable. You couldn't shake him
off the ball.
It didn't matter where he was playing, though I suppose his best position was
outside-left.
He could go round you, or past you, or even straight through you
sometimes!"
Keith
Burkinshaw on Liverpool :
"People complain about the number of games,
but when Liverpool were dominating Europe they were playing twice a week."
Jim
Rosenthal on Liverpool :
"There's nothing like second best, and Liverpool certainly are
not!"
Steve
McMahon :
"I'd kick my own brother if necessary ...
it's what being a professional footballer is all about."
Steve
McManaman's father :
"We've another boy who's ten and if he sees a tin can on his way to
school, he steps over it.
Steven was the opposite."
Brian
Glanville on Jan Molby :
"Molby looked corpulent enough to be playing darts for
Denmark."
Hugh
McIlvanney on Jan Molby :
"Beneath the drayman's body, his feet remain as nimble
as a ballet dancer's."
Bob
Paisley :
"If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do
with the ball,
put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later."
Bob
Paisley :
"Still we've had the hard times too - one year we finished second."
Bob
Paisley :
"There's so many clubs been ruined by people's ego.
The day after we won our first European Cup, we were back at 9:45 in the morning,
talking about how we would do it again, working from that moment, because nobody has the right to win something
they haven't
earned."
Neil
Ruddock on Liverpool's 100% start to the 1994-95 season :
"On those performances I reckon we would have taken Brazil."
Neil
Ruddock on a penalty awarded after a 'foul' by him on Tottenham's Jürgen Klinsmann - David James
saved the ensuing spot-kick
:
"I looked around and it was the usual prostrate Klinsmann.
In the end justice was done."
Neil
Ruddock on his love-handle weight problem :
"I was in a hotel for six months and I just couldn't get
rid of it."
Ian
Rush :
"It's best being a striker. If you miss five, then score the winner, you're a hero.
The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in ... and he's a
villain."
Ian
Rush after scoring at Chelsea in his final league game before joining
Juventus :
"See this shirt - I'm keeping it because it will be one of my most treasured
possessions.
It's only just beginning to sink in that it's all over for me as
Liverpool player."
Ron
Jones on Ian Rush :
"Ian Rush is as quick as a needle."
Ron
Saunders on Anfield:
"My team won't freeze in the white-hot atmosphere of
Anfield."
John
Scales :
"For a bet I once ate three Mexican chillies.
I thought I was really smart after I'd eaten them and then about 30 seconds later I came out in a serious sweat and a
horrible rash. But I won the bet and took the money."
David
Speedie when he joined Liverpool with talk of the club sliding into a
crisis :
"If you think this club is in crisis, you've never been
to some of the places I have."
Ian
St. John on his winning goal in the 1965 FA Cup Final :
"The goal looked as big as the Mersey Tunnel"
Tommy
Smith :
"I said to Kevin (Keegan)
'I'll go near post' and he replied 'No, just go for the ball'."
Graeme
Souness after Rob Jones' debut at Manchester United :
"It looks as if this boy is going to be some player."
Graeme
Souness :
"Anybody who plays for me should be a bad loser."
Graeme
Souness on Robbie Fowler, when the press asked to talk to him [Fowler] after his 5-goal demolition
of Fulham, 1993 :
"He's not coming out. He says he wouldn't know what to say."
Graeme
Souness (August 1987 as Rangers' new manager):
My plans for Rangers can only be achieved by buying.
I don't have time for young players to mature.
That could take five years, and by then I could be out of the door.
Nick
Hancock on Barry Venison :
"Barry Venison should be made to play in a motorcycle
helmet."
Paul
Walsh when he joined Tottenham from Liverpool :
"There is no sentiment at Anfield. When your number is
up it's up."
Tommy
Docherty on Mark Wright :
"He'd get an injury of he went on Question of
Sport."
Elderly
Bolton fan during their 2-0 defeat at Liverpool:
It's nice t'see t'lads playing in white socks again.
Fulham programme, trailing their Littlewoods
Cup-tie, second leg, against Liverpool after losing the first 10-0:
Should the aggregate score be level after 90 minutes, extra time
will be played.
Bobby
Robson (after Liverpool's shock FA Cup Final defeat by Wimbledon):
I didn't want Kenny to be criticised, but I'm amazed nobody
said a word against him.
If England had lost at Wembley as unexpectedly as Liverpool, I would have been
slaughtered.
Anonymous
Southampton fan after the match-rigging allegations:
I'd rather have
Bruce Grobbelaar trying to lose than Dave Beasans trying to win.
David
James:
It's not nice
when you go into a supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking -
Dodgy Keeper
Arsene Wenger, Arsenal manager, on Robbie Fowler's protest to Gerald Ashby that he had not been fouled
by David Seaman at Highbury:
It is a great
gesture by Fowler and I would like to give him an award for fair play.
But if he got that I would also have to give the referee an award for
stupidity.