Explore Quotes by Bill Shankly

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.

Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game's truly great players.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.

The socialism I believe in isn't 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. That might be asking a lot, but it's the way I see football and the way I see life.

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.

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

Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried.

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.

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

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

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.

Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about.

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.

It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.

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

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

For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared _x000D_ to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.