Bill Shankly Quotes

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.

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

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

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

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

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered 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.

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

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

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

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

Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.

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.

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

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.

Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.

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.

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

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

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

Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.

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

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

Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.

My life is my work. My work is my life

I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.

Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.

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 long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.

I don't drop players. I make changes.

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.

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 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.

I never drop a player I only make changes.

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.

If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don't know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.

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

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.

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 played another 90 minutes.

Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried.

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

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.