When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
BILL SHANKLYPressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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 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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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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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 can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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