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• 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.
  • From his autobiography It's More Important Than That (1976), discussing the period after his retirement

• A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
  • Quoted by John Toshack in Kevin McCarra, "How Benítez built Liverpool," The Guardian (2006-01-21)