I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

We murdered them 0-0.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I love watching track and field – the 4×100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they’re able to do, I love watching that.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

I’m really a normal football manager.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I idolised IM Vijayan and Krisanu Dey when I started watching football. After that, it was Bhaichung Bhutia in India and Brazilian Ronaldo abroad.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.