If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
BILL SHANKLYChairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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