If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
BILL SHANKLYWhen I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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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 can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.
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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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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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