The Reds Liverpool Quotes

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.

I’ve spent my creative life so far first in the theatre, then on the page, then on the screen, examining what is turning out as I grow older to look like one enormous landscape. What I originally thought were different worlds turn out to be one interconnected place. And like a bedspread viewed by a sick child from his pillow, I am very aware that there are colours in various corners which I know very well, but I haven’t yet found the ways to get from the blue to the green and from the green to the red. I’ve just begun, and I suppose that’s become my preoccupation – the idea that at one point I will see it clearly.

..here is not the world. Here is a place where there is no work or homework, where people do not judge each other, and where they do not try to outdo each other.

If people are talking about the past instead of future, if they start to tell about their memories instead of dreams, it means they are getting older.

Why would you need to melt to enlighten people like a candle? Every move you make gives an ironic smile to others, that's all.

Wearing your red scarves, your Liverpool scarves. To support Liverpool Football Club. So I thank you, boys. I thank you. For supporting Liverpool Football Club. Because we could do nothing without you, boys – We would be nothing without you.

These eyes are a mysterious torch that illuminates the outside only. I always live in darkness, but my darkness is full of stars.

Men don’t get drunk from a really good wine but from a beautiful woman.

Time wipes successes that easily achieved and cheap.

When fair-play and the interests of the team conflict with each other, which one should you choose?

The idea of coming back to you was something like giving money to a beggar: a person feels bad himself if he gives money to a beggar or if he doesn’t do that

Gold melts in fire, women melt in gold, and men melt in women.

Loneliness, especially long-term loneliness, give birth to geniuses or mad people.

I have sacrificed my life for my love and I have sacrificed my love for Liverpool.

I fell in love with Red-White colours and I can not carry two great loves in one heart.

It is easier for small children to obey rules than making choices for themselves. In fact this doesn’t change when one grows up.

Football world is ungrateful Leo, those who carried you on their shoulders yesterday will not even ask how you are doing when you fall into disfavor.

The same sun gives different colors to different plants. The snake and bee drinks water but one of them produces poison, the other one produces honey.

Those who pursue opportunities catch them, not lazies.

If you can not fly, run. If you can not run, walk. If you can not walk, crawl. But be on the move every time. -Red White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

It is, as calls to arms go, straightforward. Crystal clear. And if you aren’t looking forward to Spurs and Kazan, to Southampton and Bournemouth, if that just doesn’t get you going, wanting to be emotional, unashamedly emotional, optimistic, passionate in a way that outsiders love to mock and our own meek minded souls call 'embarrassing' then you know what? There’s the door. There is the door, and you can walk through it, and both you and us will be happier for that. Because, for ninety minutes every few days, this fella represents Liverpool, eleven lads wearing Red represent Liverpool and we represent Liverpool. Wherever we are on globe, with an even greater responsibility if we are in the stadium.

That promotion is satisfactory. Yes, Liverpool Football Club are back in the First Division. Back in the Big League. But that is only where Liverpool Football Club belong. Only where they should have been all along. In the First Division, in the Big League. So the next time you come bearing gifts, bringing presents, it will be because we've won the Big League. Because Liverpool Football Club have won the First Division. And the FA Cup. And the European Cup. And every cup there is to win. Because only that will be satisfactory, gentlemen. When Liverpool Football Club have won everything there is to win, when Liverpool Football Club have conquered the world. Only that will be enough.

And Bill said, I am not playing with words when I say Liverpool Football Club have the most loyal supporters in the world. The greatest supporters in the world. And that is my challenge, to care for them. That is my challenge, to look after them. Because if the supporters of Liverpool Football Club are happy, then the players of Liverpool Football Club are happy, and if the players are happy, then the club is successful. That is the only sort of dividend I seek for my labours. That is the only reward I want. To make the supporters happy, to make the people happy. And I have never cheated the supporters, I have never cheated the people. And I never will, I never will. They deserve the best. Because they are the best. And no man, no man alive, can give more, can strive harder to give them the best, to make them happy. That is all I seek to do. That is all I try to do… And so come what may, whether or not I am still associated with Liverpool Football Club after that time, that time this contract ends, my wife and I will spend the rest of our days in Liverpool. We have been made to feel at home here. We like the place and we like the people. And so we can see no reason for going elsewhere… This is our home. Our home.

And remember, Liverpool reserves are not just any team. Liverpool reserves are the second-best team in the land, son. The only team better than the Liverpool reserve team is the Liverpool first team.

I know you are all disappointed, boys. I know you are all hurt. I can see it in your faces, boys. In every one of your faces. But what is done is done, boys. What is lost is lost. And so you must not let that disappointment, you must not let that hurt, devour your belief and eat your confidence. Because you are still the best side I have ever seen play, boys. You are still the finest team in England since the war. And so you must believe in yourselves and believe in each other, boys. You must have confidence in yourselves and in each other. And then you will win again, boys. And again and again. That is the only answer to disappointment, that is the only way to deal with hurt. To win, boys. And to win and win again. Until you have won the League. Until Liverpool Football Club are the Champions again. That is the only answer now. To win and win again, boys. And to be Champions. Champions again, boys!

The success of Liverpool Football Club is no one-man affair. We are a team. We are a working-class team! We have no room for individuals. No room for stars. For fancy footballers or for celebrities. We are workers. A team of workers. A team of workers on the pitch and a team of workers off the pitch. On the pitch and off the pitch. Every man in our organisation, every man in our team. He knows the importance of looking after the small things, he knows how the small things add up to the important things. From the chairman to the groundsman, every man is a cog has functioned perfectly. In the team. Every man has given one hundred per cent. For the team. And so the team has won. The team are champions, a team of champions. We are all a team of champions! We are all a team.

Hundreds of wild dogs inside me were transformed into cute birds and they are singing now maybe, but still there are some wild dogs there.

Leo died also; one in ten of my life, half of my dreams, and all of my love were entombed together with him.

I'm not away from home, home is away from me.

I am neither in time nor out of time.

..all of us are surrounded by many beauties that we don’t notice in daily life..

As a matter of fact, it seems to me that everyone is lonely, no matter how much they live together, it seems like everyone lonely in this world.

Without thinking, they only live with their desires and they sleep peacefully in their feather bed of habits.

For an unhappy man, mind is a ballast; he survives when he gets rid of it.

Doesn’t the whole world run towards drunkenness anyway? Don’t they drink alcohol to get rid of their minds that look like a decayed tooth that causes persistent pain?

The desert around him was completed. He was already untamed, now he became wild.

Do you want to be loved, Mr perfect? Be lovable first

A little mistake that you make today will lead you to make the bigger mistake tomorrow.

A bronze coin you have not is more attractive than a gold coin you have for people like you. That's why loves ends when couples get married.

..like every powerful man, you tend not to obey the existing rules.

You do not love me, you really love yourself through me.

You do not really love me; instead, You love the feelings that emerge in your soul when you are with me.

I never got used to rainy weather at all. For me, rain always meant I had to to stay in prison (orphanage). On the sunny days we always played football with friends outside..

Football is like riding a bicycle; you have to pedal a bike continuously, otherwise you will fall off.

But the stars no longer look like a poet; street lamps are more appealing to people.

In time, they have lost their personalities and begun to resemble each other.

Journalists are like sharks. Sharks can hear even the sound of a prey at a distance of 900 meters.

Your heart is like a room which is full of smoke and I want to open a window in that room by listening to your worries. -Red White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

Evening is not the time to lock ourselves in the house but its the time to escape from a materialist world’s prison. -Red White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

I do not like two types of players: those who do not do what is said to them and do not do anything else except for what is said to them. -Red White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

Pleasures are each traps, they are the dragons who await the felicity town; you can’t reach felicity before you defeat them. -Red White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

The goal keeper doesn’t concede the goal but the team does it.

I should have preferred the happiness I earned without you to the happiness I would have with you.

A dew drops on the grass in the quietest time of the night.

A dew drops on the grass in the quietest time of the night just like A genius emerges when he is alone.

Loneliness is the way to your own soul.

Do not go too far from the port of loneliness, even if you are involved in crowds.

It [Loneliness] is a suitable environment where diseases and perfection can be produced.

I advise you not to carry whatever you escape from with you as a suitcase.

I can even say I desire death now because the friends we started to live with have left from this world one by one.

When people satisfied with what they lived, death is no longer horrible.

They are [words] bad painters who work for hours and capable of painting only a sketch.

Maybe she was escaping from the chaos of the words to the cosmos of silence.

I need young people who are ashamed of the current situation of the team.

We are defeated against our weaknesses, not the difficulties.

Victory is the sovereign remedy.

A love that does not pass an examination is a flash in the pan.

If you're going to sacrifice yourself, find something worthwhile.

-But how can I cheer up now? I mean, nothing comes of nothing. -Stop meditating on your problems, things work themselves out and you become happy automatically.

-There is something more important than happiness -What is that? -Cheer.

When the sun goes down, all women become beautiful.

You are fall in love with a feeling composed when you rule over me, not to me.

Everyone was criticizing Leo, in other words, the enemy was nameless.

Concerning about someone else is to open the doors of our dungeon.

If there’s anyone who wants to watch pretty stuff, he or she should go to the theatre, cinema or ballet. Because this year in Anfield stadium, there won’t be a show for them. If there is anyone who wants to make war with someone and conquer somewhere, then be with me at the stadium on match days.

slogans (..) Is this a kind of relief for a group of people who are under stress throughout their lives?

Days used to look like a swiftly streaming river in Leo’s eyes; He sometimes used to feel the coolness, sometimes he used to wash in it and he sometimes used to watch his face in this river.

For ten pounds, a person could board a ship in Liverpool and be supplied with water (but nothing else) for the crossing. Upon debarking in New York or Philadelphia, they were free. There were no passports, fees, restrictions, or red tape; no help or hindrance from government.

In the dug-out, on the bench. The Anfield bench. Bill stared out at the players of Liverpool Football Club on the pitch. The Anfield pitch. In the sun, the players of Liverpool Football Club shining. In the sun, in their kits. Their red shirts, their white shorts. And their white socks. And in the dug-out, on the bench. The Anfield bench. Bill heard the whistle blow, Bill heard the crowd roar. The Anfield crowd.

I have fed my troubles just like that a tree feeds woodworm.

It's [Loneliness] not a patient's escape, but escape from patients.

I want to peel off the shells of my soul and reach the essence of it.

Expressing emotions through words is something like filling the sea in a bottle.

If you call for help, something as big as the ocean comes to your assistance: silence.

If a man wants to announce the oppression that he was exposed to, he should not talk, instead, he must keep silent.

Silence is a sea whereas words are a river.

After a wall is built, the master mason is forgotten.

A man looks like a horse cart. His body is the cart itself, the mind is rider, and the emotions are horses. For an ordinary man, a rider drives the horse cart, whereas horses drive yours. You are ruled by your emotions and your emotions are all over the place and dispersed.

girls can get something they want to get with their own styles already. So, they do not need theft.

Compliments were like food for him and he couldn’t live without being praised anymore.

Fame makes a man slave to all people.

Wealth, beauty and fame (..) Those three intoxicate a young man, sweep a young man off of his feet and take his shame out from his heart.

You are another human being of another world. No one speaks your language. That's the dramatic end waiting for those who want to be a star.

The flowers that you compile with all your efforts are accepted. So that there is no shame, they throw them away in a place no one else can see.

Believe in yourself. The supporters will believe you too.

My mind is like an Asian map; many places are covered with forests, deserts, swamps; in other words, it is filled with question marks.

Lovers among people who do not know love are also seen as sick or mad.

Every lover wings up and flies as high as eyes can not see her. And the winged creatures seem strange and funny for non-winged creepers who do not know how to fly.

Whatever you go to the loneliness, it grows inside.

I really lived (..) Death seems to me to be a sunset glow at the end of a beautiful day.