The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
BILL SHANKLYWhat a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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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’.
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At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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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 absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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