First is first,Second is nothing
BILL SHANKLYOf 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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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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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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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 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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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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