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

Bill Shankly

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’.
BILL SHANKLY

Build Men People Selfless Share
I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
BILL SHANKLY

Country Caught Eye Games Men Ones People
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Funny Teamwork
Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It’s real singing, and it’s what the Kop is all about.
BILL SHANKLY

Real Singing Sound
We don’t need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool’s players keeps them motivated.
BILL SHANKLY

Motivate Motivated Performance Polymer Team
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
BILL SHANKLY

Curtain Draws Garden
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
BILL SHANKLY

Four Men Overcoat
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
BILL SHANKLY

Death Football Life Soccer
The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
BILL SHANKLY

Country Draws Sides
I never drop a player I only make changes.
BILL SHANKLY

Coaching Player Sports
I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Games People
Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
BILL SHANKLY

Helping Socialism Way
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
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
BILL SHANKLY

Giving Ideas World
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Inspirational Leadership
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
BILL SHANKLY

Fans Missing Roger Soccer

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