Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
BILL SHANKLYFor 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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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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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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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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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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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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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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
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