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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.

Bill Shankly

Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
BILL SHANKLY

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

Football Funny Teamwork
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
BILL SHANKLY

Four Men Overcoat
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Married Wife
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Bigs Institutions Loyal Society
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Football Games Simple
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Club Games Soccer Writing
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Games Soccer
Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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Helping Socialism Way
If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don’t know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.
BILL SHANKLY

Balls Next Sticks
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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Break Cheat Legs Wife
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
BILL SHANKLY

Down Game Great Player
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
BILL SHANKLY

Football Funny Sports
If you can’t support us when we lose or draw, don’t support us when we win
BILL SHANKLY

Draws Support Winning

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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