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’.
BILL SHANKLYI’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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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.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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 (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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