I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.
I'd rather lose a game trying to win it, than lose it trying not to get beat
My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.
It's not always plain sailing... especially when you're flying!
Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore
The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.
Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.
My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. When we have the football everybody's a player.
I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.
They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.
They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change... I don't have sympathy, no.
I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.
Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.
The best players want to play in the best competition.
A player's character is a crucial factor I look into before committing to signing them. They also need to show a willingness to learn, regardless of age and experience; that's very important to me.
I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.
When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.
If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.
I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.
I will leave no stone unturned in my quest - and that quest will be relentless - to try and get Liverpool back on the map again as a successful football club.
I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.
That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important
Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn't matter how much money you have come for. That doesn't matter to me. I will play a 17-year-old if he fights and he has quality. It is quite easy.
Whilst I'm here, I'll always do the best I can.
In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.
