First is first,Second is nothing
BILL SHANKLYPressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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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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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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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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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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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 was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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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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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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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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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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At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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