I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
BILL SHANKLYI don’t drop players. I make changes.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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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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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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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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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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