I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
BILL SHANKLYIf you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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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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A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace
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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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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