Top 1200 Liverpool Football Club Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

I'm a chilled out guy from Liverpool.

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

Women are the same. We watch football; we play football. Why wouldn't we be out there giving our opinions on the sport ,too?

Liverpool have played with no real convention.

I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought, 'If these guys can do it, then so can I.'

My favorite player of all time is Deion Sanders, so football is my first love. When I was little, I focused more on football, definitely.

Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'

Football is a passion and I could not live that in Arabian football.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

If you take guys that love the grind of football and who are passionate about football, it should click regardless if they have the proper talent.

People in Liverpool are very welcoming.

The idea of developing football and winning trophies at Real Madrid does not fall in line with how I see football.

My time off is usually spent working out and getting better at football. When I come home and spend time with my little brother, we're out on the football field. We're working out or playing Madden. We're spending time with each other, but our quality time is football.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Fear is not something we feel at Liverpool.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

European football is the same as any other football.

Looking back at my matches since 2002, there is one main criterion for me which marks a club which is successful in the long-term: big players, who have grown with their clubs, whose names are tied to the success and who have a 100 per cent identification with the team, the club and its history.

Liverpool are a very powerful opponent.

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

Liverpool will always be my home.

Being part of such a great club like Manchester United fills you with emotion, and you gradually realise how much the club means to the fans and the people who work here. They really live for the game, so that does become part of you, and you can only appreciate that having spent time here.

I moved to Liverpool to win trophies.

For me, my entry point, when I was old enough, was the skinhead/suedehead thing, sort of like '70/'71. People didn't have much money - they would save up, or whatever - but everyone always dressed up. You'd go to a dance at the football club on a Thursday night and all of us kids - all of us from maybe like 12 to 16 - were all dressed up.

In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.

Xabi embraced life in Liverpool.

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

I wish football, as a culture, bred more than just a football player. It has the ability to be an incubator and transition players properly.

As a kid, Liverpool was big for us.

Red is our color. (on Liverpool)

I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.

You can't swing with hesitation; you can't try to steer the ball to the flag; you can't worry about that water hazard as you take the club back. You have to pick the right club, visualize the shot you want to hit, and then focus on that shot until the ball is gone.

Learning to be a Liverpool player comes with experience.

Women's football will always be different from men's football, but that doesn't mean you cannot still appreciate it. OK, so it might be a bit slower than the men's game, but then League Two football is slower than the Champions League, and it doesn't stop people turning out to see their local teams.

My mother wouldn't let me play football because she was afraid I would get hurt, so I played flag football.

I was adapted to European football after playing in Germany for three years, but English football is very different to the Bundesliga.

The passion the British people have for football - they live for football.

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

I went to school with Steven Wright who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought if these guys can do it then so can I.

Every single night, there seemed to be the same seven or eight guys - Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club - drinking club - for rock stars that drank - seriously drank.

People often say, 'I like your comics, even though I don't know enough math to get all of them,' as if it's some kind of club where they don't belong. But there's no club. There's just lots of people who are excited about thinking, learning, joking, and sometimes overanalyzing things.

If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.

In football you need to be versatile sometimes, because the most important thing is to win games and enjoy your football.

If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

I have improved since I joined Liverpool.

Football is a game. So you need to enjoy your football.

We grew up with my family being very passionate about two sports, American football and British football.

I like the Common Goal initiative, the vision of football as a tool for social change and the power football has to improve the world.

I've always been a Liverpool fan.

I don't watch football like outside of football, really.

Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. You would never go to a club just to see "Live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. But when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get.

I got the Liverpool job when I was 38.

Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

It definitely isn't true that I supported Liverpool.

When I was growing up, I played football, I loved football.