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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
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Liverpool
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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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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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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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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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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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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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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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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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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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Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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 checks.
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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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