Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
BILL SHANKLYThe best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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The socialism I believe in isn’t really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other,.
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Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn’t look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he’d given everything he had for 90 minutes.
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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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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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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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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.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.
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It’s to remind our lads who they’re playing for, and to remind the opposition who they’re playing against. (on the ‘This Anfield’ plaque)
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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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