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I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Bill Shankly

When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
BILL SHANKLY

League Looks Tables
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Funny Teamwork
My life is my work. My work is my life
BILL SHANKLY

Game Hard Life Work
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
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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Football Men Player Stopped
If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
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Draws Support Winning
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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Club Games Soccer Writing
Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
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Finals Pits Trying
The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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Brain England Son
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Down Game Great Player
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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Break Cheat Legs Wife
Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Born Game Quarried Soccer
It’s to remind our lads who they’re playing for, and to remind the opposition who they’re playing against. (on the ‘This Anfield’ plaque)
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Anfield Country Football
For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.
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Fighting Running Wall
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
BILL SHANKLY

Day Football Great Soccer
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Passion Pride Team

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