Liverpool Quotes
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It's all changed now, which is why it mattered to those young men from Liverpool that they should be there to support their team.What other group isgoing to troop their colours for them, present them with scarves and emblems?
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge— 1989 After the Hillsborough football disaster. Quoted in David Pickering The Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).
The folk that livein Liverpool, their heart isintheir boots; They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots.
— 1914 'Me Heart'.
Alas, it doesindeed seema monstrousthing, but afterall, what is chaste in Constantinople may have the aspect of lewdness in Liverpool, and what in Liverpool may pass for virtueinConstantinopleisfrequently regardedasvice.
— 1915 Letter to John Lane,17 Dec.
If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.
George Best— In the book The Afterlife by Paul Morley "[1]", Footy Factor (April 23, 2009).
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.
arthur guiterman— The Traveler
I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
bill shankly— From his autobiography It's More Important Than That (1976), discussing the period after his retirement
Variant : If we are to believe certain narrow minded people — and what else can we call them? — humanity is confined within a circle of Popilius from which there is no escape, condemned to vegetate upon this globe, never able to venture into interplanetary space! That's not so! We are going to the moon, we shall go to the planets, we shall travel to the stars just as today we go from Liverpool to New York, easily, rapidly, surely, and the oceans of space will be crossed like the seas of the moon.
jules verne— Tr. Walter James Miller (1978)
We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
Paul McCartney— On the Beatles' early expectations of their success (2007 interview with Larry King)
