Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso was always bemused by our enthusiasm for tackling, because he saw it as the last resort.
Think about all the great boxers who have fought here, starting with Muhammad Ali. And as well as all that, I believe I will be the first boxer from Liverpool to appear at the Garden.
I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.
Hopefully I will have a long career at Liverpool.
I grew up a lot as a professional and as a person in Liverpool, and I have very strong links to the club and the city.
I can see exactly why Liverpool want Klopp.
Ever since I was a kid, I had been a Liverpool fan – they were my favourite Premier League club.
I lived three unforgettable years with Liverpool. I will always be grateful for everything to the club and, especially, the fans. From day one, they behaved impeccably and were amazing.
Jurgen Klopp will change Liverpool. He is a great coach and in the end his results will prove it. Every moment I had with him is a good memory. He treated me so well, taught so much, even though I was from Japan and not at all famous.
I gave 100 per cent, 100 per cent of the time I played for Liverpool. Five years, I did everything I could possibly do. I love this club, but it is time for a new adventure.
My feeling for Liverpool does not mean I’m tied to them.
At a gig in Liverpool I had this lady give me 21 cup cakes she had made herself. It’s not really rock’n’roll is it? Tom Jones gets pants thrown at him and I get given fairy cakes.
Really, the club is like a big family. The locker-room spirit is also similar to what I had experienced at Liverpool, but I really like it here at Juventus, because it’s not just a set of champions. The sense of a team, the group, is strongly felt.
I go home every day, and my mum still lives in the same house. It’s not one of the most affluent areas of Liverpool – some may say it’s deprived – but we have an abundance of love and support.
I’m born in Liverpool, I’m a Liverpool supporter.
As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles’ question, ‘Will you still need me when I’m 64?’
I started in theatre, in Liverpool, which is where I’m from, and which I love as a city. I acted at the Liverpool Playhouse, and I have very fond memories of it, but although I love the theatre I’m in love with film.
There are prime examples – me, Natasha Jonas, Tony Bellew, Toni Duggan – who have come from areas around Liverpool that haven’t been the wealthiest. But we’ve also been determined to get out and then to give back.
It’s hard to pick out a single team, because there are so many big games here in the Premier League, obviously there are the top teams like Liverpool, City, Chelsea, I think those big games, the ‘big six’ are always good. We always look forward to them, we all want to be on the pitch and to win them.
Normally in the past whenever Everton have beaten Liverpool, the accusation was that they wanted it a little bit more.
As great as Sadio Mane is, John Barnes is one of the best players I have ever played with – and I’ve played with a lot of good players at Liverpool.
If Man United and Liverpool fans feel better by calling me a black monkey in my messages… feel free to carry on if it makes your day better.
There is a big emphasis at Liverpool to have an academy that brings through young players.
People in Liverpool don’t move very far, you know.
There are always opportunities at Liverpool.
It was an easy decision for me to sign with Liverpool.
Let me tell you, when you play for a team that has the teammates and fans that Liverpool have then you always have a soft spot for them. It never leaves you.
I admire Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool – these are the teams that are always there fighting.
I moved to Liverpool in 2012, and they were really ambitious, bringing in top players. In 2013, we beat Arsenal – who seemed invincible – 4-0. It was the shock of the century.
Many great teams have players who have come through the youth system or have been at the club for a long time as their captains. I’m thinking of Steven Gerrard at Liverpool, John Terry at Chelsea, Raul at Real Madrid, as well as Puyol at Barcelona and Gary Neville at Man United.
I don’t know one player who doesn’t make a mistake, especially a defender and especially how we play at Liverpool.
When you talk about those Liverpool greats, they had players who won everything. Some great team men, great goalscorers, longevity.
As a kid, I never once dreamt of playing for Liverpool.
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 think you find Liverpool fans are extremely passionate, as are Evertonians, but I think it goes to another level in Glasgow.
Playing for Wales or making my debut for Liverpool, it was excitement, a feeling of freedom even.
I’m a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that’s what I’m like, but it’s great for me ‘cos they’re always the most interesting characters.
As a Liverpool fan, I’m an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.
I consider Liverpool my home, and it will always be like that. It’s what they say: once a Red, always a Red.
I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another’s houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.
There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That’s what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
When I was small, my local team actually played in Liverpool kits.
Liverpool is a great club and I always enjoyed playing at Anfield because the fans are so passionate.
I suppose people lost interest in me when I left Liverpool; but it wasn’t me who left, it was other people who left me. If people had continued to follow me, they would have seen my two good seasons in Turkey which caught the attention of Besiktas and Galatasaray.
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.
We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.
I want to play for Liverpool in the Premier League on a regular basis, I will never deny that.
In my opinion, there is no better place to be for a footballer than Liverpool.
Liverpool is one of the best teams in the world – everybody can see that – and now we have to do it on the pitch.
Before signing with Liverpool, I talked to Roberto Firmino about what the club is like and what the city is like. He spoke well of the club and the city and other people who have already visited the city. The information only gave me more motivation to come to Liverpool.
You can get caught up in a lot of things playing for Liverpool. The main thing is to stay grounded. That’s something I won’t forget.
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
Liverpool is no different to any other city in the country for footballers. If you are famous and people know you have money, there will always be someone who wants to make a name for themselves.
I would say I am more comfortable in the centre of midfield. But when you are at a big club like Liverpool, you maybe get played in positions with which you might not be so familiar. But you have got to learn the different roles, because it gives you a better opportunity to play.
I was a Liverpool fan as a kid.
When I came to Liverpool, in a €20 million transfer, I was expensive.
Grime reminds me, if there is an echo, of sort of near enough like Liverpool in the very early Sixties. It’s a lot of kids obsessed with music – obsessed with it.
When you manage Liverpool, you know the Manchester United job is gone.
Nobody at Liverpool questions the manager. Jurgen Klopp is a top, top manager.
I’ve played for Liverpool’s first-team pretty much every week for 16 years.
The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
It’s always a great feeling to help Holland as well as Liverpool but we all do it together.
Managing Liverpool? Yes, for sure, I have dreamt of that, but first I have to prove myself and prepare.
Liverpool have always shown a great warmth to me, so when they came to me with a proposal, I did not need to think twice to renew the contract. I have always been looked after very well by this football club, and I am very happy at this football club, so I didn’t even have to think about it.
As a kid, Liverpool was big for us.
At Liverpool, we are all part of one unit, not just the 11 on the pitch.
I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
I am interested in how much and how quickly Klopp, the manager that I know, can change the team at Liverpool.
