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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

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
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Football Games Soccer
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Curtain Draws Garden
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
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
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Passion Pride Team
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Defense Goal Play
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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Football Inspirational Leadership
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.
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Motivate Motivated Performance Polymer Team
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
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Beats England Soccer
The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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Country Draws Sides
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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I Can Mean
I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
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Everywhere Football Home Jobs Life
I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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Changes Inspirational Making Player

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

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