We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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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Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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We don’t need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool’s players keeps them motivated.
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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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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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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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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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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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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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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