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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.

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
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Liverpool
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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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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 difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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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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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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I'm a people's man - only the people matter.
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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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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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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 (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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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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If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win
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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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