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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

Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Mao Red Shows
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
It’s to remind our lads who they’re playing for, and to remind the opposition who they’re playing against. (on the ‘This Anfield’ plaque)
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Anfield Country Football
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
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Four Men Overcoat
My life is my work. My work is my life
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Game Hard Life Work
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,.
BILL SHANKLY

Believe Football Successful
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
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
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Passion Pride Team
First is first,Second is nothing
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Firsts Game Nothing Second
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
When I’ve got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
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League Looks Tables
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
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Inspirational Leadership
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
Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
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Anfield Football Grass

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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