Quotes About Football

Eight is a number I always liked. It's also the number my dad wore when he played football, so it's special to me. I am aware that it's a big number here at Liverpool, and I am very excited to wear it.

Liverpool will always buy good players, even if they already have good players. That's normal. I think it has to be normal for a club like Liverpool because that means you're a big club.

Liverpool is a great club.

Yes, in 1983, I had the opportunity to sign for Liverpool.

A team like Liverpool you are not going to turn down.

I'd like Everton to be known as the better team in Liverpool.

I feel confident that I'm good enough to play a lot of games for Liverpool.

Liverpool is my club. I try to follow every game. I still support them, I wish them all the best.

You can't play man to man against Liverpool and out-pass them. You have to keep your shape and stop them.

I started watching Liverpool on the Kop; my earliest memories were 2000 onwards when Liverpool won the Treble under Gerard Houllier.

For a player to really be at his best you have to give him a certain confidence, but I did not feel appreciated by some people at Liverpool.

Yes, there is a lot of competition for places at Liverpool but that's the same at every top club. It was like that when I was at Ajax and that isn't a problem for me.

At a club like Liverpool, it is normal there is going to be competition for every single place.

I got the Liverpool job when I was 38.

Liverpool will always be the place I look back in terms of the place where I enjoyed playing, it was just unique.

I have a very similar connection with Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool as I had earlier with Ronald Koeman at Southampton.

We can do what we love to do and also to play for Liverpool - they are such a big club. You need to enjoy it but the pressure will always be there.

I can't say I am a Liverpool fan. I don't have a club in England. I just want Klopp to win. If he was coach of another team, I would support them.

I've played for Liverpool's first-team pretty much every week for 16 years.

Not playing for Liverpool would hurt me more than not playing for England.

Being at Liverpool since the age of eight, it's always been my dream to break into the first team and be playing at Anfield week in, week out.

Every Liverpool fan and Liverpool player wants to go to Old Trafford and win every time we go there.

Even though I'm 32 I feel like a kid again. I've got so much enthusiasm for the game. The fact that I'm playing under Brendan Rodgers and for Liverpool, I just can't wait.

Alisson arrives at Liverpool with much more experience than De Gea had when he first went to United so I don't think there will be anyone out there who doesn't feel Alisson shouldn't be here.