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)
BILL SHANKLYAt 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
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