Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
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I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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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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If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don’t know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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The socialism I believe in isn’t really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other,.
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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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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