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.
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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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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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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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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