What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
BILL SHANKLYIan Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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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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If he isn’t named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)
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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 you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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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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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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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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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