It is 50 years since Bill Shankly took over at Liverpool where he helped transform the club and laid the foundations for their subsequent European and domestic success.

The Scot won First Division titles, FA Cups and the UEFA Cup before leaving Anfield in 1974 when his work was continued by Bob Paisley.

Shankly was also known as a maverick and here Press Association Sport lists some of his most famous sayings:

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."

"Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward."

"If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd pull the curtains."

"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game."

"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe that you are the best and then make sure that you are. In my time at Liverpool we always said we had the best two teams in Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves."

"Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool."

"If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing."

"It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against." On the 'This is Anfield' plaque

"It was the most difficult thing in the world, when I went to tell the chairman. It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt." On leaving Liverpool.

"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 cheques."

Bill Shankly Liverpool Career Factfile

1959: December 1 - Appointed Liverpool manager after three years at Huddersfield and takes over with the club in the bottom half of the old second division.

1961: Signs key players Ian St John, from Motherwell, and Ron Yeats, from Dundee United.

1962: May - Having overhauled the training facilities and playing squad, Shankly guides Liverpool back into the top flight by winning Division Two by eight points.

1964: May - Wins his first - and the club's sixth - Division One title to succeed near neighbours Everton as champions.

1965: May - Liverpool reach the semi-finals of the European Cup before exiting to eventual winners Inter Milan. Liverpool win their first FA Cup with extra-time victory over Leeds.

1966: May - Liverpool win Division One championship again. Defeated 2-1 in extra time by Borussia Dortmund in European Cup Winners' Cup final at Hampden Park.

1967: June - Signs goalkeeper Ray Clemence from Scunthorpe for £18,000.

1969: May - Liverpool finish runners-up to Leeds in Division One.

1970: Signs Steve Heighway, who was playing as an amateur for Skelmersdale United.

November: Signs John Toshack from Cardiff for £110,000.

1971: May - Liverpool lose 2-1 to Arsenal in FA Cup final.

Signs Kevin Keegan from Scunthorpe for £35,000 and plays him up front with Toshack. The pair go on to become one of the greatest strike partnerships in the game.

1973: May - Shankly wins Division One for a third and final time as manager. Guides Liverpool to victory over Borussia Monchengladbach in a two-legged UEFA Cup final to secure the club's first European trophy.

1974: May - Liverpool finish Division One runners-up to Leeds.

Shankly collects a second FA Cup with 3-0 victory over Newcastle in the final.

July 12 - Retires as Liverpool manager at the age of 60 to spend more time with wife Ness and his family.

November - Shankly is awarded the OBE.

1981: September 26 - Admitted to Broadgreen Hospital after a heart attack.

September 29 - Dies in the early hours of the morning aged 68.