Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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The socialism I believe in isn’t really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other,.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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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