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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.

Bill Shankly

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
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Football Games Simple
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Fans Missing Roger Soccer
I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Matter Men People
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
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’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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Everywhere Football Home Jobs Life
Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
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Real Singing Sound
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
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Anfield Country Eleven
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Football Games Soccer
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
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
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
He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
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Everything Hard Honest Score Skillful Totally
He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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Country Forward Game Soccer
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Down Game Great Player
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
My life is my work. My work is my life
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Game Hard Life Work
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Differences Queens Soccer Fans
Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Liverpool Proud Scots
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Beats England Soccer
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Passion Pride Team
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Cities Soccer Team
Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Helping Socialism Way
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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Football Funny Teamwork

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