I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
BILL SHANKLYIf you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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 you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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 would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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I’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.
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If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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