The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
BILL SHANKLYIf 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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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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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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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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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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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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