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.
BILL SHANKLYAbove 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’.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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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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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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