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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.
Bill Shankly
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Bill Shankly
Age: 68 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 2
Died: 1981
Died: September 29
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Soccer Player
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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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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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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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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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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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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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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 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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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'm a people's man - only the people matter.
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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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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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