Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
BILL SHANKLYI’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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.
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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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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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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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 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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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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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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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