Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
BILL SHANKLYMe having no education. I had to use my brains.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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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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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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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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If he isn’t named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)
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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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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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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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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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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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 problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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