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My life is my work. My work is my life

Bill Shankly

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
Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Liverpool Proud Scots
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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I Can Mean
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Passion Pride Team
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Anfield Country Eleven
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
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!
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Differences Queens Soccer Fans
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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Football Married Wife
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
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
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
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
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
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
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Cities Soccer Team
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Curtain Draws Garden
I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Matter Men People
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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Football Inspirational Leadership
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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Day Football Great Soccer
When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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League Looks Tables
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 don’t drop players. I make changes.
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Changes Inspirational Making Player
Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Hands Kevin Son
The socialism I believe in isn’t really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other,.
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Believe Football Successful
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
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
My life is my work. My work is my life
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