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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

Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
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Liverpool Proud Scots
I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Matter Men People
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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Day Football Great Soccer
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.
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Football Simple Soccer
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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Facts Games Soccer
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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Football Games Simple
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
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
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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Everything Hard Honest Score Skillful Totally
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
Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.
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Born Game Quarried Soccer
I don’t drop players. I make changes.
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Changes Inspirational Making Player
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
Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say ‘We’re Liverpool’.
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Build Men People Selfless Share
My life is my work. My work is my life
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Game Hard Life Work
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)
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Football Men Player Stopped

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