If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
BILL SHANKLYWhat can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
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Of 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.
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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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Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
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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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