This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
BILL SHANKLYThis city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
BILL SHANKLYPressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
BILL SHANKLYPressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
BILL SHANKLYJust go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
BILL SHANKLYAt 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.
BILL SHANKLYIf Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
BILL SHANKLYMy life is my work. My work is my life
BILL SHANKLYThe difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
BILL SHANKLYThe problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
BILL SHANKLYA football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
BILL SHANKLYI was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
BILL SHANKLYIts great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
BILL SHANKLYFootball is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
BILL SHANKLYI’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.
BILL SHANKLYI wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
BILL SHANKLYOf 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.
BILL SHANKLY