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)
BILL SHANKLYYes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.
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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 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.
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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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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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