Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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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.
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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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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If he isn’t named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)
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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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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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