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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

Bill Shankly

Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
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Championship Countr Cup Final Pressure
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Death Football Life Soccer
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Curtain Draws Garden
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
I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Coaching Player Sports
Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Mao Red Shows
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Funny Sarcastic Soccer
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
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Football Games Soccer
My life is my work. My work is my life
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Game Hard Life Work
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Cities Soccer Team
At 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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Football Player Soccer
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
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Passion Pride Team
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
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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Finals Pits Trying
Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
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Bigs Institutions Loyal Society
The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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Country Draws Sides
Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
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Football Inspirational Motivational
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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Fighting Running Wall
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
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
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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Inspirational Motivational Soccer
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Fans Missing Roger Soccer
He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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Country Forward Game Soccer
It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.
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Facts Games Soccer
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Down Game Great Player

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