Bill Shankly Soccer Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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