The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
BILL SHANKLYWell 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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