Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
BILL SHANKLYI don’t drop players. I make changes.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
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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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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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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