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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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If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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The very word 'Anfield' means more to me than I can describe.
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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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In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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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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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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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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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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Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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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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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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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