Bill Shankly Quotes

Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

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

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

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

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

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.

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

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'.

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

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.