Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
BILL SHANKLYIf 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)
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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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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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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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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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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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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