Bill Shankly
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.Collection: Death
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.Collection: Death
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.Collection: Success
Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
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.
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
We murdered them 0-0.
I'm a people's man - only the people matter.
Denis Law could dance on eggshells.
If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we winCollection: Winning
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.Collection: Football
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.Collection: Funny
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Football
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.Collection: Funny
At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.Collection: Soccer
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.Collection: Balls
Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried.Collection: Born
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.Collection: Soccer
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 menaceCollection: Funny
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.Collection: Trying
We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.Collection: Team
When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.Collection: League
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.Collection: Football
Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.Collection: Red
If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.Collection: Funny
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!Collection: Queens
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.Collection: Missing
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.Collection: Ideas
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.Collection: Soccer
If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.Collection: Soccer
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.Collection: Writing
I don't drop players. I make changes.Collection: Inspirational
The very word 'Anfield' means more to me than I can describe.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Wife
I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.Collection: Sunday
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.Collection: Real
It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.Collection: World
I never drop a player I only make changes.Collection: Sports
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'.Collection: Men
First is first,Second is nothingCollection: Firsts
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.Collection: Team
Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.Collection: Way
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.Collection: Soccer