When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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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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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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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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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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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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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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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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