BILL SHANKLY QUOTES - PART 2
About the 'This is Anfield' plaque - 'This is to remind our lads who
they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing
against.'
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'Of course I didn't take my wife to
see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday amd would I
have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale
reserves.'
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Shankly to the Brussels hotel clerk
who queried his signing 'Anfield' as his address on the hotel register -
'But that's where I live.'
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Shankly explaining rotation to a reporter - 'Laddie, I never drop players, I only make changes.'
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Comparing the Anfield pitch to other grounds - 'It's great grass at Anfield, professional grass!'
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'The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!'
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To a local barber, who in 1968 had asked 'Anything off the top? Shanks retorted - 'Aye, Everton!'
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On
awaiting Everton's arrival for a derby game at Anfield, Shankly gave a
box of toilet rolls to the doorman and said - 'Give them these when they
arrive - they'll need them!'
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'I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.'
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