Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
BILL SHANKLYWe 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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 a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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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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Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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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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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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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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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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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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