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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.

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.
BILL SHANKLY

Club Games Soccer Writing
Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Inspirational Motivational
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
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,.
BILL SHANKLY

Believe Football Successful
Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Born Game Quarried Soccer
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
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
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Beats England Soccer
Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Mao Red Shows
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’.
BILL SHANKLY

Build Men People Selfless Share
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
BILL SHANKLY

Four Men Overcoat
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
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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Anfield Country Football
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

Eventually Everyone Idea Liverpool Wanted

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