Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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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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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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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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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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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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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