We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
BILL SHANKLYOf 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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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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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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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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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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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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