If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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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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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Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn’t look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he’d given everything he had for 90 minutes.
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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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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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