110 Quotes by Bill Shankly

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

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

For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.

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

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.

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'.

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

I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in.

One day in 1959, when Huddersfield were playing Cardiff City, Tom (T.V.) Williams, who was then chairman of Liverpool, and Harry Latham, a director, came down the slope at Leeds Road to see me. Mr Williams said, 'How would you like to manage the best club in the country?' 'Why, is Matt Busby packing it up?' I asked.