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 SHANKLYIf you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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First is first,Second is nothing
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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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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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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