The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
BILL SHANKLYForget 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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 you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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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