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.
BILL SHANKLYIts great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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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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At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
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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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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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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
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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
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For 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.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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