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I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.

Bill Shankly

Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Liverpool Proud Scots
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Anfield Country Eleven
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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Four Men Overcoat
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Curtain Draws Garden
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
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
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Down Game Great Player
If he isn’t named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)
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Football Men Player Stopped
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 trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Football Games 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
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
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
I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Games People
First is first,Second is nothing
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Firsts Game Nothing Second
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

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