Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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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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At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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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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When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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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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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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We don’t need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool’s players keeps them motivated.
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