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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)

Bill Shankly

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
The very word ‘Anfield’ means more to me than I can describe.
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I Can Mean
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
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Cities Soccer Team
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
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Curtain Draws Garden
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
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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Finals Pits Trying
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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Day Football Great Soccer
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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Eventually Everyone Idea Liverpool Wanted
We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
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Beats England 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
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Anfield Country Eleven
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Football Games Soccer
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
The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)
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Brain England Son
He’s not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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Country Forward Game Soccer

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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