Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
BILL SHANKLYI wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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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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Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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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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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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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 Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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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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Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 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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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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