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Bill Shankly Quotes
By Craig McWalter July 29 2002
Quotes from one of the best Liverpool Manager's of all time.
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Bill Shankly on boardroom meetings :
"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 cheques".
Bill Shankly on his relationship with the fans :
"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."
Bill Shankly on Tommy Smith :
"If he isn't named Footballer of the Year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to the Kremlin"
Bill Shankly :
"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 :
"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 about the "This is Anfield" plaque :
"It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against."
Bill Shankly to Alan Ball, who'd just signed for Everton :

"Don't worry, Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team!"
A scout told Shanks about a young player who he'd given a trial at Liverpool
"He has football in his blood," the disappointed scout complained. "You may be right," Shanks said, "but it hasn't reached his legs yet"
Bill Shankly at Dixie Dean's funeral :
"I know this is a sad occasion but I think that Dixie would be amazed to know that even in death he could draw a bigger crowd than Everton can on a Saturday Afternoon".
Bill Shankly when told he had never experienced playing in a derby :
"Nonsense! I've kicked every ball, headed out every cross. I once scored a hat-trick; One was lucky, but the others were great goals."
Bill Shankly after beating Everton in the '71 cup semi :
"Sickness would not have kept me away from this one. If I'd been dead, I would have had them bring the casket to the ground, prop it up in the stands and cut a hole in the lid."
Bill Shankly on his resignation :

"It was the most difficult thing in the world, when I went to tell the chairman. It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt"
Bill Shankly to a Liverpool fan :
"Where are you from?"
"I'm a Liverpool fan from London."
"Well laddie . . . . What's it like to be in heaven?"
Bill Shankly to the journalist suggesting Liverpool were in difficulties :
"Ay, here we are with problems at the top of the league."
Bill Shankly :
"People Say football is a matter of life and death" , " I believe it is much more important than that".
Bill Shankly to the players after failing to sign Lou Macari :
I only wanted him for the reserves."
Bill Shankly :
"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."

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