A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
BILL SHANKLYI never drop a player I only make changes.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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 (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
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Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
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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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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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