Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
BILL SHANKLYHe wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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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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I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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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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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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