Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
BILL SHANKLYIf you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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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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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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