What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
BILL SHANKLYAlthough I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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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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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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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
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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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We don’t need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool’s players keeps them motivated.
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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