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.
BILL SHANKLYAim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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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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The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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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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