We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
BILL SHANKLYIan Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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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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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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.
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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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