I don’t drop players. I make changes.
BILL SHANKLYPressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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 you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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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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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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