Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say ‘We’re Liverpool’.
BILL SHANKLYYes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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