First is first,Second is nothing
BILL SHANKLYSome people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
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At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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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)
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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’.
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace
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