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 SHANKLYJust go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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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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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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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