Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
BILL SHANKLYIt’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.
More Bill Shankly Quotes
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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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We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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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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With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
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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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I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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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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Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
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My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world.
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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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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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