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’.
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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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace
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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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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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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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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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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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