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A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

Bill Shankly

I don’t drop players. I make changes.
BILL SHANKLY

Changes Inspirational Making Player
I never drop a player I only make changes.
BILL SHANKLY

Coaching Player Sports
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
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Balls Next Sticks
Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
BILL SHANKLY

Finals Pits Trying
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
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
Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Born Game Quarried Soccer
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
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Game Greatest Minutes Ninty Quality Useless
The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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Best Boss Character Fand Long Straighter
The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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Country Draws Sides
Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Mao Red Shows
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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I Can Mean
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Defense Goal Play
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
BILL SHANKLY

Day Football Great Soccer

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