A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
BILL SHANKLYI wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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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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Football 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.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
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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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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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