Bill Shankly – classic quotes:

• “When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.”
• “A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
• “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.”
• “Me having no education. I had to use my brains.”
• “Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.”
• “What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.”
• “This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.”
• “The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.”
• “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 you’re not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we’ll discuss your options afterwards.”
• “If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.”
• “If a player isn’t interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be!”
• “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’.”
• “I’m a people’s man — only the people matter.”
• “I was only in the game for the love of football — and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.”
• “If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.”
• “We murdered them 0-0.”
• “Denis Law could dance on eggshells.”

Shankly salutes The Kop as Liverpool celebrate winning the 1973 English League 1 Championship.

Bill Shankly and the rest of the squad run across to the pulsating Spion Kop who singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ and chanting:

“We won the league,
We won the league,
E-eye-addio,
We won the league”