Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
BILL SHANKLYIf Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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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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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 trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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