Source: Liverpool_Echo
Liverpool FC legend Bill Shankly - his most famous quotations
on winning[LNB]"My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Napoleon had that idea. He wanted to conquer 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"[LNB]"I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us."[LNB]"If you are first, you are first. If you are second, you are nothing."[LNB]on Liverpool fans[LNB]"Liverpool were made for me and I was made for Liverpool, and I knew that the people who mattered most were the ones who came through the turnstiles."[LNB]"Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength."[LNB]"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."[LNB]on Anfield[LNB]"Just look at that grass boys, it's great grass, it's professional grass."[LNB]"The very word Anfield means more to me than I can describe."[LNB]"The word fanatic has been used many times.. I think it's more than fanaticism. It's a religion to them. The thousands who come here, come to worship.. it's a sort of shrine, it isn't a football ground."[LNB]on Tommy Smith[LNB]"If he isn't named Footballer of the Year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to the Kremlin"[LNB]"Take that bandage off. And what do you mean about YOUR knee? It's Liverpool's knee!"[LNB]"Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried."[LNB]on his politics[LNB]"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."[LNB]"Burns was early socialist - the first was Jesus Christ of course. He didn't think that God made people to be unequal, he thought everyone should share in the work and the rewards."[LNB]"The socialism I believe in is not 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."[LNB]on management[LNB]"If you can't make decisions in life, you're a bloody menace. You'd be better becoming an MP!"
