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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Bill Shankly

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Bill Shankly
Age: 68 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 2
Died: 1981
Died: September 29
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Soccer Player
William Shankly
Bill Şenkli
Death
Matter
Important
Life
Soccer
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Football

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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Don't worry, Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team. (to Alan Ball, who'd just signed for Everton)
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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.
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I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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The very word 'Anfield' means more to me than I can describe.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.
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In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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I'm a people's man - only the people matter.
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Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.
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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.
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I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.
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