Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
BILL SHANKLYAt a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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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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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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 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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I never drop a player I only make changes.
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I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
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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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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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First is first,Second is nothing
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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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