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.
BILL SHANKLYAt 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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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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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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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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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace
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