Bill Shankly Quotes

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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.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Leadership, Football

  53 Copy quote

• If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

  Bill Shankly

  Winning, Support, Draws

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• The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Believe, Goal

  "Football's debt to socialism" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2010.

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• In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Soccer, Sports

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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.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

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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.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Teamwork, Football

  "How Benítez built Liverpool" by Kevin McCarra, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2006.

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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, everyone helping each other, and everyone having a share of the rewards at the end of the day. That might be asking a lot, but it's the way I see football and the way I see life.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Believe, Successful

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• If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Soccer, Sarcastic

  70 Copy quote

• My life is my work. My work is my life

  Bill Shankly

  Life Is

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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.

  Bill Shankly

  Balls, Next, Sticks

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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.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Men

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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.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

  29 Copy quote

• 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

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

  Bill Shankly

  Garden, Curtains, Draws

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Football 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 Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Simple

  "Steppe change: how Gareth Southgate became a management guru in Russia" by Stefan Stern, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2018.

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• I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

  Bill Shankly

  Sunday, League, Looks

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• Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Life And Death

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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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  League, Looks, Tables

  25 Copy quote

• We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

  Bill Shankly

  Team, Games, Worry

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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. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.

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  Trying, Finals, Pits

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• The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!

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  Queens, Differences, Soccer Fans

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• One day in 1959, when Huddersfield were playing Cardiff City, Tom (T.V.) Williams, who was then chairman of Liverpool, and Harry Latham, a director, came down the slope at Leeds Road to see me.
  Mr Williams said, 'How would you like to manage the best club in the country?'
  'Why, is Matt Busby packing it up?' I asked.

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  Country, Cities, One Day

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• Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.

  Bill Shankly

  Missing, Roger, Soccer Fans

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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.

  Bill Shankly

  Running, Wall, Fighting

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