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.
BILL SHANKLYThe Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
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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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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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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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The socialism I believe in isn’t really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other,.
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A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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