If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
BILL SHANKLYIan Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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At 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.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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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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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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