A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
BILL SHANKLYI was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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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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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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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 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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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