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

Bill Shankly

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
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
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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Day Football Great Soccer
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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I Can Mean
I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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Changes Inspirational Making Player
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Football Games 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
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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Balls Next Sticks
Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Hands Kevin Son
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
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
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Anfield Country Eleven
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
Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Helping Socialism Way
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Passion Pride Team
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.
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Eventually Everyone Idea Liverpool Wanted

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

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