When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
BILL SHANKLYI 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
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Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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 difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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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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Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
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