Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
BILL SHANKLYFire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
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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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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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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 best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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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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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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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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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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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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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn’t look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he’d given everything he had for 90 minutes.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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