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.
BILL SHANKLYAt 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.
BILL SHANKLYPressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
BILL SHANKLYI’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
BILL SHANKLYI was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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.
BILL SHANKLYA lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
BILL SHANKLYIan Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
BILL SHANKLYMe having no education. I had to use my brains.
BILL SHANKLYPressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
BILL SHANKLYThe problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
BILL SHANKLYI don’t drop players. I make changes.
BILL SHANKLYFirst is first,Second is nothing
BILL SHANKLYMy idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
BILL SHANKLYWell 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.
BILL SHANKLYChairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
BILL SHANKLYWhen I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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