We don’t need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool’s players keeps them motivated.
BILL SHANKLYThe problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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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.
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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 wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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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 lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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