Explore Quotes by Bill Shankly

We murdered them 0-0.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

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.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

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

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.

If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

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'.

I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.

First is first,Second is nothing

If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

I'm a people's man - only the people matter.

I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.

I've had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne. He wasn't flashy and he wouldn't score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest. Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn't look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he'd given everything he had for 90 minutes.