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.
BILL SHANKLYThe difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
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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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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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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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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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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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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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