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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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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
Inspirational
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Sky
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Football
Ceiling
Stay
Ceilings

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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
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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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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 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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Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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)
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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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I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
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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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In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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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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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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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