This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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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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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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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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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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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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