Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
BILL SHANKLYThe very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don’t know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.
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Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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 problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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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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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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Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say ‘We’re Liverpool’.
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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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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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