BILL SHANKLY QUOTES - PART 2

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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To Chris Lawler during a training session at Melwood - 'Was it a goal? Was I offside?' Lawler replied - 'You were boss.' Shanks then quipped - 'Christ, son, you've been here four years, hardly said a word and, when you do, it's a bloody lie!'
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To Tommy Smith during training - 'You son, could start a riot in a graveyard.'
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'There's Man. Utd and Man. City at the bottom of Division 1, and by God they'll take some shifting.'
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'It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.'
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On a wartime Scotland v England match - 'We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.'
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After losing to Ajax in the 1967 European Cup - 'We cannae play these defensive continental sides!'
 
Shanks and Tommy Docherty were at a game. There was a player every other club coveted on view. Docherty said to Shanks - '100,000 wouldn't buy him.' Shanks retorted - 'Yeah, and I'm one of the 100,000!'
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What Shanks disliked about football - 'The end of the season.'
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Radio Merseyside reporter to Shankly - 'Mr Shankly, why is it that your teams' unbeaten run has suddenly ended?' Shanks replied: 'Why don't you go and jump in the lake?'
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On hearing a rival manager was unwell - 'I know what's wrong - he's got a bad side!'
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To reporters after a 3-0 defeat - 'They're nothing but rubbish. Three breakaways, that's all they got.'