Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
BILL SHANKLYMy life is my work. My work is my life
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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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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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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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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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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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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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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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