Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
BILL SHANKLYFirst is first,Second is nothing
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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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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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,.
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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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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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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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