Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game’s truly great players.
BILL SHANKLYIf 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 is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
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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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Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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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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Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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I’ve had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne.
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At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
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Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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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
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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
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My life is my work. My work is my life
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The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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