Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
BILL SHANKLYIf you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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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.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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