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.
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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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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It’s to remind our lads who they’re playing for, and to remind the opposition who they’re playing against. (on the ‘This Anfield’ plaque)
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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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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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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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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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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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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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’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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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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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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