Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
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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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When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say ‘We’re Liverpool’.
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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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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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