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.
BILL SHANKLYSome people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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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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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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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 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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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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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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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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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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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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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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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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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