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,.
BILL SHANKLYI 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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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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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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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 (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
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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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