Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
BILL SHANKLYWe 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
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Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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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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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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