It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
BILL SHANKLYI wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn’t look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he’d given everything he had for 90 minutes.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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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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I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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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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