Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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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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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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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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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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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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
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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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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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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’.
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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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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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