What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
BILL SHANKLYFirst is first,Second is nothing
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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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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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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’.
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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We 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.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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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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If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace
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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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