Quotes by Bill Shankly

• If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
• What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
• We murdered them 0-0.
• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
• 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.
• 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.
• Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
• Denis Law could dance on eggshells.
• A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
• I'm a people's man - only the people matter.
• Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.