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En fin måte å minnes at det 1. desember 2009 er 50 år siden han ble ansatt i Liverpool.

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude.
I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."

"Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all.
Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward."

"If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd pull the curtains."

"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game."

"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe that you are the best and then make sure that you are. In my time at Liverpool we always said we had the best two teams in Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves."

"Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool."

"If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing."

Om 'This is Anfield'-skiltet.
"It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against."

Om avgangen fra Liverpool.
"It was the most difficult thing in the world, when I went to tell the chairman.
It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt."

"At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters.
Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques."