Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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
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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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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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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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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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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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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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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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If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don’t know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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