Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
BILL SHANKLYA lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
-
-
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
BILL SHANKLY -
When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
BILL SHANKLY -
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
BILL SHANKLY -
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.
BILL SHANKLY -
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
BILL SHANKLY -
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.
BILL SHANKLY -
First is first,Second is nothing
BILL SHANKLY -
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.
BILL SHANKLY -
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
BILL SHANKLY -
My life is my work. My work is my life
BILL SHANKLY -
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
BILL SHANKLY -
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
BILL SHANKLY -
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
BILL SHANKLY -
Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
BILL SHANKLY -
The socialism I believe in isn’t really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other,.
BILL SHANKLY