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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.

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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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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 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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I'm a people's man - only the people matter.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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 you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don't know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.
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It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
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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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The very word 'Anfield' means more to me than I can describe.
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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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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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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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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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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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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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