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 so…

- Bill Shankly

It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have play…

- Bill Shankly

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

- Bill Shankly

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 s…

- Bill Shankly

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

- Bill Shankly

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

- Bill Shankly

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…

- Bill Shankly

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 ga…

- Bill Shankly

I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a lon…

- Bill Shankly