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.
BILL SHANKLYFootball (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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We don’t need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool’s players keeps them motivated.
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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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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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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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The socialism I believe in isn’t really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other,.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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