A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
BILL SHANKLYThe trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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 don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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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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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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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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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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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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