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.
BILL SHANKLYI never drop a player I only make changes.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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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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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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