Liverpool fc legent Bill Shankly favourite qoutes

"My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Napoleon had that idea. He wanted to conquer the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in"

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

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

on Liverpool fans

"Liverpool were made for me and I was made for Liverpool, and I knew that the people who mattered most were the ones who came through the turnstiles."

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

"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."

on Anfield

"Just look at that grass boys, it's great grass, it's professional grass."

"The very word Anfield means more to me than I can describe."

"The word fanatic has been used many times.. I think it's more than fanaticism. It's a religion to them. The thousands who come here, come to worship.. it's a sort of shrine, it isn't a football ground."

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"

"Take that bandage off. And what do you mean about YOUR knee? It's Liverpool's knee!"

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

on his politics

"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."

"Burns was early socialist - the first was Jesus Christ of course. He didn’t think that God made people to be unequal, he thought everyone should share in the work and the rewards."

"The socialism I believe in is not 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."

on management

"If you can't make decisions in life, you're a bloody menace. You'd be better becoming an MP!"

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