A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
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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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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First is first,Second is nothing
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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 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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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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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 a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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 don’t drop players. I make changes.
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