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.
BILL SHANKLYWell the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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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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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
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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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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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