Liverpool Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  John Oliver

  Queens, Voice, Sound

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• 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.

  Gerard Houllier

  Cities, People, Proud

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• Liverpool have played with no real convention.

  Ray Houghton

  Real, Conventions

  "Alan Brazil, Chris Kamara and the Redknapps - it's 3PM's Quotes of the Year (Part Two)". www.mirror.co.uk. December 27, 2009.

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• Lady luck is trying his best for Liverpool

  Steve Claridge

  Luck, Trying, Lady Luck

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• 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.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Challenges, Alex

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• We were massive underdogs at the beginning of the competition and I'll put my hands up say and I didn't think we were going to go all the way. But, as you can see, we are never beaten. The manager told us to keep our chins up, to try and score early in the second half and give some respect for the fans. The first goal gave us a bit of belief. The supporters have saved up for weeks and months to come here. I am so happy to lift the cup for the fans.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Thinking, Hands

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• There is going to be a lot asked of me over the next few weeks but I am getting more experience now and learning all the time.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Fans, Next

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• I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Football, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Sepp Blatter

  Winning, League, Effort

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• 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!

  Ian Callaghan

  Player, Typical, Looks

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• When John was with me, it was total commitment. Whatever he did outside our relationship didn't seem very important. We were together such a lot of the time that whatever other affairs he had once we met couldn't have amounted to much because I was with him most of the time. He kept me in Liverpool as late as I dared stay.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Commitment, Together, Important

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

  Robbie Fowler

  Leader, Spending, Behinds

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

  Peter Shaffer

  Years, Nine, Firsts

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• 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.

  Thomas Keneally

  Dog, Australia, Ships

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• In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, 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 ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

  Jules Verne

  New York, Stars, Ocean

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• George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.

  Alan Goldsher

  Dirty, Angel, Men

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• I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

  John Lennon

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Frustrated, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Play, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try to please when I play.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Mean, Play

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• One day in 1959, when Huddersfield were playing Cardiff City, Tom (T.V.) Williams, who was then chairman of Liverpool, and Harry Latham, a director, came down the slope at Leeds Road to see me.
  Mr Williams said, 'How would you like to manage the best club in the country?'
  'Why, is Matt Busby packing it up?' I asked.

  Bill Shankly

  Country, Cities, One Day

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• 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.

  Bill Shankly

  Team, Passion, Pride

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• 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.

  Bill Shankly

  Real, Singing, Sound

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

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Soccer, Sports

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• 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.

  Bill Shankly

  Writing, Should Have, Clubs

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