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.
Now and again, you may be picking a pass or two in behind, making something happen, but when we’re attacking – especially at Liverpool – I’m focusing on protection, being disciplined, being careful, worrying about counter-attacks, things like that.
Coming here to Liverpool, with the history of playing young players, it was the place to go to if I was to move. They’ve not let me down.
My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I’ve always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we’d even said hello!
I joined Liverpool in 1978. I was the record signing between English clubs.
I’m very happy and satisfied at Liverpool. I feel valued and respected.
I want to thank my two English clubs: Liverpool for bringing me to the Premier League and Chelsea for the trophies I won.
Playing for Liverpool at Anfield is a very joyous and positive experience.
Every Liverpool fan and Liverpool player wants to go to Old Trafford and win every time we go there.
Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and both have the largest economic powers in the world exactly 213 miles to the south by car.
There were players who could leave the result at Anfield, but me? No chance. I got involved in the running of two restaurants in Liverpool to take my mind off football but, before the opening night of each one, I’d played badly. It meant I couldn’t enjoy the party. It felt like I had to punish myself.
I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
When you play for Liverpool and England, you have good players around you, and you want to compete with the best.
Sometimes I have to pinch myself to think: have I really come this far? Because it is quite different, where I find myself today, from where I started off, in the streets of Waterloo, in the suburbs of Liverpool – that’s for sure.
My heart was always set on Liverpool. I always loved the club.
And so we went away to play, and we’d come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this – ‘cuz we did it for two years. And then we’d go to Germany, and that’s where I met the Beatles.
One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It’s a working club and a working city. I don’t know why, but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck, but in Spain, they surround you and you can’t do anything. I think they’re happy with me here.
Liverpool are a very powerful opponent.
For me, Raheem Sterling is a fantastic player, and he’s been brilliant for England. I hope he will stay at Liverpool.
I want to be in goal and play for Liverpool every week and then win a trophy with the club. That’s what everyone wants. I want to do my part and help.
I love Liverpool – it’s a great city to live in.
The ‘Sodajerker’ podcast is the work of Liverpool songwriting duo Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor.
You can’t play man to man against Liverpool and out-pass them. You have to keep your shape and stop them.
There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.
In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks. That is what I will try to do here. The number I have at Liverpool does not give me any added pressure. The pressure I have is to play well and do my best for the team. I know that I am representing a huge club, and I want to enjoy my football.
Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it’s getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.
What Liverpool do really well is they try to get you inside but then close you down.
For me, I can’t see Liverpool without him because he’s just been there since I was a kid. I had him on the back of my shirt. He’s always been on the team every time I’ve watched Liverpool. It’s going to be really weird next season, a Steven Gerrard-less Liverpool side.
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I’ve got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it’s possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.
Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds have successful financial services sectors. There are good universities there which provide great opportunities for local technological innovation. And there are strong multinational and family businesses.
My father is a huge fan! As far back as I can remember, he has been talking about them. Before I even knew what Liverpool was as a kid, he was mad about them.
The big teams will want to avoid Liverpool. Everyone knows we are a very strong side.
I know it is really hard to win a league, especially the Premier League, but we have experienced players here at Liverpool.
Yes, in 1983, I had the opportunity to sign for Liverpool.
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.
Kenny Dalglish was absolutely right: anyone that doesn’t want to be at Liverpool can leave. Players will come and go.
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.
Xabi embraced life in Liverpool.
Bayern is a big club and a big brand, but on a daily basis, it’s a family club. You get to know the physios, the kit man, the chefs. It’s also a club that’s very close to the supporters. That proximity to the fans makes it special. That was surprising. In Liverpool and Madrid, there’s more distance.
For me, at the level I’m playing at, I would love to finish my career at Liverpool if you gave me that option.
My Liverpool blood kept me grounded.
Playing in England was a fantastic experience. In Liverpool, I felt at home and really, thoroughly enjoyed it.
For me, what makes Liverpool special is that they are a team that works very well on the lines, very compact, in which everyone attacks and defends.
Chelsea gave me what I was looking for when I left Liverpool trophies. I’ll always see it as a success.
A club like Liverpool has to be involved in Europe, whether it is the Europa League or Champions League.
I feel as though I have established myself at Liverpool and I am enjoying it.
There are only two or three places in Britain with Catholic and Protestant cathedrals,and Liverpool is one. My wife Montse and I like to go to both of them.
A piece of my heart will always be with Liverpool.
Gerrard is passionate, and he leads from the front. At times, he has lifted Liverpool to great wins almost single-handedly.
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
It’s different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
There will be goals to achieve along the way, but until I captain Liverpool, I will not be satisfied.
I have adapted well in Liverpool.
The great thing about coming from where I come from – Liverpool and my family – is that we’re very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids.
I try to show myself at Liverpool, and when I come to the national team, I try to show myself in training or in games.
I have a fantastic respect for Liverpool the city, club and the fans, from the time I spent there. That respect will always be there.
Liverpool are a team that have no fear.
I’ve got big ambitions, and so do Liverpool, and now I’m playing in the biggest league in the world.
Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.
I am very happy here at Liverpool. It’s a very good club at a very high level – a big club.
Room 40 knew a U-boat was heading south to Liverpool – knew the boat’s history; knew that it was now somewhere in the North Atlantic under orders to sink troop transports and any other British vessel it encountered; and knew as well that the submarine was armed with enough shells and torpedoes to sink a dozen ships.
This is Liverpool, we will always come back when it’s tough.
To work with Brendan Rodgers and the players at Liverpool is an unbelievable dream come true for me, really.
