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.
BILL SHANKLYJust go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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