I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
BILL SHANKLYI’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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I 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.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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