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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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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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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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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Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
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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'm a people's man - only the people matter.
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The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.
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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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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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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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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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