If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
More quotes from Bill Shankly
Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Denis Law could dance on eggshells.
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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.
We murdered them 0-0.
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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 Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.