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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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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 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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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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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