I don’t drop players. I make changes.
BILL SHANKLYI don’t drop players. I make changes.
BILL SHANKLYFootball 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 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 SHANKLYFor 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.
BILL SHANKLYMy idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
BILL SHANKLYIf he isn’t named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)
BILL SHANKLYWhen I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
BILL SHANKLYIf you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
BILL SHANKLYThe problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
BILL SHANKLYYes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
BILL SHANKLYI’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
BILL SHANKLYA football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
BILL SHANKLYMe 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.
BILL SHANKLYChairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
BILL SHANKLYThe 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.
BILL SHANKLY