My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
BILL SHANKLYJust go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
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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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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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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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Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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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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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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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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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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