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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Bill Shankly

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
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
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.
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Country Caught Eye Games Men Ones People
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Death Football Life Soccer
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Funny Sarcastic Soccer
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
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
Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Born Game Quarried Soccer
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Down Game Great Player
Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Liverpool Proud Scots
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
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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Defense Goal Play
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 Funny Sports
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
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
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
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
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Cities Soccer Team
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
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Differences Queens Soccer Fans
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Football Games Simple
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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Everything Hard Honest Score Skillful Totally
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
Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Hands Kevin Son
I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Coaching Player Sports
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
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

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

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