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

BILL SHANKLY

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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

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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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Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)

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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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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 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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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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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

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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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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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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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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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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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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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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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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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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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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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