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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Bill Shankly

Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Down Game Great Player
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
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
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
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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Inspirational Motivational Soccer
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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Giving Ideas World
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
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
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
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 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
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
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
Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Liverpool Proud Scots
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 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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