If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
BILL SHANKLYFootball 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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I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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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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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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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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’.
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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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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.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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