The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
BILL SHANKLYA football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
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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 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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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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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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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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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 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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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