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 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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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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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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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I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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