A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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