Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
BILL SHANKLYThe trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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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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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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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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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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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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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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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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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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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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