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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
Football
Death
Matter
Important
Life
Soccer
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Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say 'We're Liverpool'.
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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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I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
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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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I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.
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He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
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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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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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Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.
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The very word 'Anfield' means more to me than I can describe.
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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace
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