With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
BILL SHANKLYWhich 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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