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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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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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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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 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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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