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
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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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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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Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say ‘We’re Liverpool’.
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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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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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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Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
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