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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

Bill Shankly

Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Helping Socialism Way
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Football Games Simple
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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Motivate Motivated Performance Polymer Team
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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Football Funny Sports
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Death Football Life Soccer
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Fans Missing Roger Soccer
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Passion Pride Team
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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Football Simple Soccer
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Beats England Soccer
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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Four Men Overcoat
Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn’t look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he’d given everything he had for 90 minutes.
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Game Greatest Minutes Ninty Quality Useless
When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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League Looks Tables
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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Build Men People Selfless Share
I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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Changes Inspirational Making Player
Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
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Bigs Institutions Loyal Society
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Anfield Country Eleven

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