My life is my work. My work is my life
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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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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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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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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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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Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
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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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Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say ‘We’re Liverpool’.
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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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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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