Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
BILL SHANKLYThe difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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