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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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In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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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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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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 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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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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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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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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 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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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