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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More Bill Shankly Quotes
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When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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 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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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’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
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I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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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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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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I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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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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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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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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