I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
BILL SHANKLYHe wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
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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If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don’t know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.
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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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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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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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