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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)

Bill Shankly

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
BILL SHANKLY

Curtain Draws Garden
When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
BILL SHANKLY

League Looks Tables
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Inspirational Leadership
Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
BILL SHANKLY

Mao Red Shows
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Married Wife
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Balls Next Sticks
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
BILL SHANKLY

Anfield Country Eleven
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Funny Teamwork
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Everything Hard Honest Score Skillful Totally
Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say ‘We’re Liverpool’.
BILL SHANKLY

Build Men People Selfless Share
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Real Singing Sound
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Simple Soccer
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
BILL SHANKLY

I Can Mean
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
BILL SHANKLY

Beats England Soccer
The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
BILL SHANKLY

Brain England Son
Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Inspirational Motivational

With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)

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