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Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.

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
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
I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Coaching Player Sports
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
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Fans Missing Roger Soccer
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
The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
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Best Boss Character Fand Long Straighter
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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Giving Ideas World
I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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Matter Men People
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
For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.
BILL SHANKLY

Fighting Running Wall
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Curtain Draws Garden
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
I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
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Football Games People
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Death Football Life Soccer
Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
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Down Game Great Player
The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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Country Draws Sides

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