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’.
BILL SHANKLYIts great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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 don’t drop players. I make changes.
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I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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If 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)
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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The 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.
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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.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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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My life is my work. My work is my life
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