Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
BILL SHANKLYPressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
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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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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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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’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
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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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Well 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.
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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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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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