Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
BILL SHANKLYIt’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)
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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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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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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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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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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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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