Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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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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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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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 Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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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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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If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don’t know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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