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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)

Bill Shankly

Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Born Game Quarried Soccer
Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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Anfield Football Grass
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
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
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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Football Player Soccer
I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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Country Caught Eye Games Men Ones People
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Passion Pride Team
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Fans Missing Roger Soccer
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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Football Inspirational Leadership
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
Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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Championship Countr Cup Final Pressure
The socialism I believe in isn’t really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other,.
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Believe Football Successful
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Football Games Simple
I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Coaching Player Sports
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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Best Boss Character Fand Long Straighter
Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
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Football Married Wife

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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