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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

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
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
Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Liverpool Proud Scots
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.
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Real Singing Sound
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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Four Men Overcoat
The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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Country Draws Sides
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Curtain Draws Garden
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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Day Football Great Soccer
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
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
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
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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Eventually Everyone Idea Liverpool Wanted
It’s to remind our lads who they’re playing for, and to remind the opposition who they’re playing against. (on the ‘This Anfield’ plaque)
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Anfield Country Football
I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
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Break Cheat Legs Wife
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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Football Funny Teamwork

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