Bill Shankly Quotes

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• If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.
• If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
• If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.
• 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…
• 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…
• Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
• Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
• I never drop a player I only make changes.
• Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.
• Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
• My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted…
• 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…
• I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.
• Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
• It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.
• 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,…
• I’m just one of the people who stands on the Kop. They think the same as I do, and I think the same as they…
• 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…
• This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
• I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses…

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