83 result(s) for Bill Shankly Quotes.
"It's not a matter of life and death. It's more important than that."
"This city has two great teams, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves."
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."
"If you can't make decisions in life, you're a bloody menace. You'd be better becoming an MP."
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
"It was on St. Valentine's Day, 1959, and I signed for Liverpool for £2,400. What I needed I could have borrowed, but it wanted the wife's permission."
"The average director's knowledge of football is very limited and their principal function is to protect their investment, not see that justice is done."
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"Some players have ability, but cannot marry it to teamwork. A manager's job is to marry the two."
"I'm not saying he's a coward, but he's probably one of those lads who has a shower after training."
"Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser."
"The trouble with being a manager is that it’s like trying to hold 30 corks underwater at the same time."
"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."
"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure you are."
"The socialism I believe in is not really politics; it is humanity, a way of living and sharing the rewards."
"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 do. It's a kind of marriage of people who like each other."
"Somebody said to me 'To you, football is a matter of life and death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'."
"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."
"There are only two types of people in this world - those who know worthless trivia, and those who support Liverpool."
"If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won. They've rattled you and won."
"Football is a team game, and although great players can often advance their careers, great teams win championships."
"The socialism that nowadays can appeal to intelligent men can have nothing in common with the old idea of a class struggle."
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"Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple."
"Show me a good loser in professional football and I'll show you an idiot."
"Although I once said football is more important than life and death, I am now beginning to think I may have been wrong."
"The difference between a football game and a revolution is that in a football game they don't kill you for losing."
"I was the best manager in Europe because I was never a prisoner of my backside."
"Getting ahead is not the main thing. Staying ahead is."
"Football is not just a matter of life and death...it's much more important than that."
"It's there, honestly. I will love it forever. It is one of the greatest sights I have ever seen."
"My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Napoleon had that idea and he conquered the bloody world!"
"The socialism I believe in is not really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the football clubs should be part of the community and they ought to be open to the community."
"If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be. If he isn't trying to do that, then he should be off the park."
"Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and making yourself available to receive a pass. It is really that simple."
"The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life."
"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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"If you can't make decisions in life, you're a bloody menace. You'd be better becoming an MP!"
"Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves."
"Yes, I was a great footballer once. But I have to say, I think I was worth it."
"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game."
"I've never played anywhere without giving my best. If you are not capable of giving 100 percent, you must tell your manager."
"Football is a bloody serious game. As Shankly said, “Some people think it’s a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.'"
"I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious, never cheated. I said be a doctor, be a lawyer, a civil servant. I said it to everybody. I said it to everybody I ever knew."
"There's nobody anywhere who can look at Liverpool and say that they didn't get what they deserved. They won the league by getting more points than anyone else. It is as simple as that."
"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."
"It's not a question of women, I like my whisky straight."
"If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be. In my opinion, that means he's offside."
"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."
"The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!"
"If you are first, you are first. If you are second, you are nothing."
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that."
"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe that you are the best and then make sure that you are."
"The trouble with you is, you think you have time."
"If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win."
"It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for and to remind the opposition who they're playing against."
"My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Napoleon had that idea. He wanted to conquer the bloody world."
"This city has two great teams - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves."
"I'm just one of the people - not the most important or less important - just one of the people."
"The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers."
"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."
"I love the Pope, I love Italy, I love Brazilian music, and I don't go on about them all the time."
"My life is my work, my work is my life."
"They say football's a matter of life and death, but it's more important than that."
"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 out on some things because of his job."
"Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better."
"If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards."
"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game."
"If you can't make decisions in life, you're a menace in football."
"Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor."
"I'm just one of the people who stands on the terraces watching it."
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."
"Football differs from most other games due to the significance of the team spirit."
"I was the best manager in England because I was never devious, never cheated."
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, I would draw the curtains."
"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'."
"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."
"I'm just going to go up and down in the lift. The wires go up and down, don't they?"
"A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing."
"It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against."
"The only way to live with your dreams is to confront them."
"If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing."
"The more I see of the money side of football, the more I hate it. I don't mean the money for buying players. I mean the money to pay players who are not playing."
"The game of football is played by 11 men. It's the team that makes the difference."
"I never wanted Liverpool to be second to anybody. We were going to be first in everything."
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