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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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Bill Shankly
Age: 68 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 2
Died: 1981
Died: September 29
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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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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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In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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The very word 'Anfield' means more to me than I can describe.
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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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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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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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I'm a people's man - only the people matter.
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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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 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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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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Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.
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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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