Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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 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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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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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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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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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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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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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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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