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.
BILL SHANKLYFire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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 are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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I don’t drop players. I 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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