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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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Bill Shankly
Age: 68 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 2
Died: 1981
Died: September 29
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Soccer Player
William Shankly
Bill Şenkli
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Happiness
Back
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Liverpool
Love
England
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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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 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 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’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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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Don't worry, Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team. (to Alan Ball, who'd just signed for Everton)
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The very word 'Anfield' means more to me than I can describe.
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Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.
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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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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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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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In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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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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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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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