Bill Shankly

Liverpool fc legend Bill Shankly favourite qoutes PIECE OF NEWS

"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!"

Liverpool FC legend Bill Shankly - his most famous quotations

on Mersey neighbours Everton

"If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd pull the curtains."

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

'Anything off the top?' asked a barber in 1968. 'Aye, Everton'

to an interpreter when surrounded by a group of Italian journalists at an airport

'Just tell them that I totally disagree with whatever they're saying.'

after signing Ron Yeats

"With him in defence, we could play Arthur Askey in goal."

on Brian Clough

"He's worse than the rain in Manchester. At least God stops the rain in Manchester occasionally."

on critics

"They said we were predictable. Well, I think anybody who is unpredictable is a waste of time. Joe Louis was predictable. He would knock a man down on the floor. Goodbye! We were predictable, but the opposition couldn't stop us!"

when Alan Ball signed for Everton

"Don't worry, Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team!"

on how he would like to be remembered

"That I've been basically honest in a game in which it is sometimes difficult to be honest. Sometimes you‘ve got to tell a little white lie to get over a little troublesome period of time. I'd like to think that I have put more into the game than I have taken out. And that I haven‘t cheated anybody, that I‘ve been working for people honestly all along the line, for the people of Liverpool who go to Anfield. I'd like to be recognised for trying to give them entertainment.

"I'd played at Anfield and I knew the crowd were fantastic. I knew there was a public just waiting. So I fought the battles inside and outside. I was interested in only one thing, success for the club. And that meant success for the people. I wanted results for the club, for the love of the game, to make the people happy."

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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 would never cheat her."

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random quotes

"There's Man.Utd and Man.City at the bottom of Division 1, and by God they'll take some shifting."

“We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.”

“A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the bloody thing.”

“A hundred thousand wouldn’t buy him,” Tommy Docherty said. “And I’m one of the of the hundred thousand,” replied Shankly

“Aye, watch it Bob, it’s very greasy and treacherous out there. Very difficult for goalkeepers.” To Arsenal ‘keeper Bob Wilson before the 1971 Cup Final, one of the hottest days of the year

“Me having no education. I had to use my brains.”