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 SHANKLYMy 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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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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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.
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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.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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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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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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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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First is first,Second is nothing
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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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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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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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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