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I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.

Bill Shankly

If he isn’t named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)
BILL SHANKLY

Football Men Player Stopped
I never drop a player I only make changes.
BILL SHANKLY

Coaching Player Sports
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Break Cheat Legs 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.
BILL SHANKLY

Game Greatest Minutes Ninty Quality Useless
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
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Real Singing Sound
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Simple Soccer
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
BILL SHANKLY

Fans Missing Roger Soccer
Train the right way. Help each other. It’s a form of socialism without the politics.
BILL SHANKLY

Helping Socialism Way
I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Games People
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
BILL SHANKLY

I Can Mean
The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
BILL SHANKLY

Country Draws Sides
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
My life is my work. My work is my life
BILL SHANKLY

Game Hard Life Work
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
BILL SHANKLY

Down Game Great Player
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
BILL SHANKLY

Day Football Great Soccer

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