Bill Shankly Quotes - Page 2

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• Me having no education. I had to use my brains.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Brain, Use

  Quoted in David Pickering The Cassell Soccer Companion (1994)

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• What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Great Day

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• Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried.

  Bill Shankly

  Born

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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. 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. Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn't look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he'd given everything he had for 90 minutes.

  Bill Shankly

  Eye, Men, Games

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• I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.

  Bill Shankly

  Wife, Legs, Cheat

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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.

  Bill Shankly

  Country, Cities, One Day

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

  Bill Shankly

  Queens, Differences, Soccer Fans

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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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• Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.

  Bill Shankly

  Red, Mao, Shows

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• I don't drop players. I make changes.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Player, Making Changes

  Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1990).

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• I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.

  Bill Shankly

  Writing, Should Have, Clubs

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• I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.

  Bill Shankly

  Team, Mars, Want

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• 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 Shankly

  Men, People, Selfless

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

  Bill Shankly

  Life Is

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• 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 Shankly

  Soccer, Games, Facts

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• This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Team, Cities

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• If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.

  Bill Shankly

  Team, Passion, Pride

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• Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about.

  Bill Shankly

  Real, Singing, Sound

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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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• It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against.
  (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Anfield, England

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• Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Soccer Fans, Made

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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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• 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.

  Bill Shankly

  Loyal, Institutions, Bigs

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