Anfield Quotes

I'm not saying it wouldn't have happened if I'd come to Anfield then (1997), but I always held out hope that I'd come back and this is a real dream come true for me.

I used to hate Ian Rush when I was young, because I was a devout Evertonian in those days, and he seemed to score every time Liverpool played against us. It's strange to think he used to support Everton too when he was a kid. He was brilliant to me at Anfield always giving me good advice.

We have a bow and arrow and if we aim well, we can hit the target. The problem is that Bayern has a bazooka. The probability that they will hit the target is clearly higher.

There's only one place you want to be and that's Wembley, Old Trafford or Anfield.

Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts?  (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)

There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.

I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.

If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

There's no noise like the Anfield noise - and I love it!

Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say 'We're Liverpool'.

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against.  (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)

You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football.

The very word 'Anfield' means more to me than I can describe.

When I die, don't bring me to the hospital. Bring me to Anfield. I was born there and will die there.

Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.