Quotes About Liverpool

Chelsea gave me what I was looking for when I left Liverpool trophies. I'll always see it as a success.

I want to thank my two English clubs: Liverpool for bringing me to the Premier League and Chelsea for the trophies I won.

Everyone's dream, growing up, is seeing themselves in an away kit somewhere in a sunny country. But, in reality, I'm happy to be playing for Liverpool and trying to win trophies.

I knew I had to try and win trophies and be successful and be a big player for Liverpool.

When you play for Liverpool Football Club, who have won so many trophies both domestically and on the continent, you always have to believe that you can go all the way.

The stature of Liverpool means they want to win trophies.

I am convinced Klopp can win the league at Liverpool. He has shown he doesn't need the biggest transfer budget or the biggest name to win the biggest trophies.

After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

Certainly my dream is to lift the Premier League trophy with Liverpool, and that's what we are trying to do.

We play for Liverpool. It is always our intention to win. All the players here want to compete at the top and win. The manager does not have to say to us, 'We want to win a trophy.'

For some strange reason there were various rumours about the pair of us fighting on the training pitch. It was always bollocks. I would get more pissed off that they always had Carra winning our imaginary fights. I'll have to get the gloves on one night – especially now that Carra is sparring with Tony Bellew, one of our top boxers in Liverpool.

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

At Brondby, we had Daniel Agger, who came up from the youth. He had two years in the team, and then we sold him to Liverpool for nearly £7 million, which is a lot of money in Denmark. As a manager, that gives you even greater satisfaction that winning something as a player.

I was sold by Middlesbrough to Liverpool for a record fee between two English clubs and then won European Cups at Anfield, but I couldn't have been prepared for Rangers. I was a fan as a kid and attended a lot of European nights at Ibrox. I knew the club were big. But not how big.

I had a good time at Liverpool. They were great lads. The manager had his reasons to keep me on the bench, and at the same time, they were on a good run.

But when I joined up with England I felt lucky to be there, and it was the same at Liverpool. And when I look back now I realise I lost something mentally as a player, by allowing that to happen.

Obviously, if you go to any football club in the world, you're going to get guys taking the mickey out of one another, but I would say that in Liverpool it was a lot closer to the knuckle.

warned that an invasion called off one October might easily take place the next. Yes, it was better to be safe than sorry. Bill began to hum a popular tune of the moment – I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill – and smiled to himself. Libby had been disappointed when the telegram had arrived putting off her Christmas visit to Liverpool, especially as it would have meant seeing her beloved father after so many months apart.

Ed. Note: really, really, REALLY not smart to do this in bar full of giant Liverpool fans

I loved playing at Anfield, but it could be quite intimidating because you come out of the tunnel and see their fans singing 'You'll Never Walk Alone', and it gives you goosebumps.

The Central Lending Library in Liverpool was completely ruined. (The rest of the city's libraries stayed open throughout the Blitz, maintaining regular hours and levying the usual overdue fines.)

I want to be remembered as a Liverpool player who was part of something special.

Each time I watch a Liverpool game, I feel something special, especially whenever it's at Anfield, because it brings back great memories.

The 'Sodajerker' podcast is the work of Liverpool songwriting duo Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor.