Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
BILL SHANKLYFootball 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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 Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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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 never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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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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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 best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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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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