Bill Shankly Player Quotations

If a player isn't interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be!

Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game's truly great players.

I don't drop players. I make changes.

If he isn't named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)

I never drop a player I only make changes.

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.