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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Bill Shankly

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.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Married Wife
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
BILL SHANKLY

Funny Sarcastic Soccer
Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Helping Socialism Way
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
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
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
The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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Best Boss Character Fand Long Straighter
Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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Anfield Football Grass
He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
BILL SHANKLY

Country Forward Game Soccer
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Player Soccer
The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
BILL SHANKLY

Brain England Son
Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
BILL SHANKLY

Hands Kevin Son
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Break Cheat Legs Wife
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
BILL SHANKLY

Defense Goal Play
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,.
BILL SHANKLY

Believe Football Successful
Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
BILL SHANKLY

Mao Red Shows

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