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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.

Bill Shankly

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
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Death Football Life Soccer
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
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
Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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Championship Countr Cup Final Pressure
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
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Football Games Simple
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
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
At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
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Football Player Soccer
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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Day Football Great 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
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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Football Funny Sports
Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Mao Red Shows
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Beats England Soccer
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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