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I never drop a player I only make changes.

Bill Shankly

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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Football Simple Soccer
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
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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Giving Ideas World
If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don’t know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.
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Balls Next Sticks
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
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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I Can Mean
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Down Game Great Player
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Cities Soccer Team
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
Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Born Game Quarried Soccer
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
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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Football Inspirational Motivational
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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League Looks Tables
I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Matter Men People
I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Coaching Player Sports
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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Club Games Soccer Writing

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