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He 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.

Bill Shankly

I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Coaching Player Sports
Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Hands Kevin Son
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Helping Socialism Way
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
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
Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Mao Red Shows
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 Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Curtain Draws Garden
Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
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Finals Pits Trying
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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Inspirational Motivational Soccer
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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Bigs Institutions Loyal Society
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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Fighting Running Wall
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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Football Men Player Stopped
First is first,Second is nothing
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Firsts Game Nothing Second
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Differences Queens Soccer Fans
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
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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Build Men People Selfless Share
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
I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Matter Men People
Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Liverpool Proud Scots
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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Break Cheat Legs Wife
The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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Brain England Son
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Anfield Country Eleven
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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He 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.

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He 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.

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