Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
BILL SHANKLYMy idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
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I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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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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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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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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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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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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