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Bill Shankly

I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
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Everywhere Football Home Jobs Life
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Brain Soccer Use
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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Country Caught Eye Games Men Ones People
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
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
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
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
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.
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Fighting Running Wall
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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Funny Sarcastic Soccer
Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.
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Mao Red Shows
What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
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Anfield Country Eleven
I never drop a player I only make changes.
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Coaching Player Sports
The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)
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Country Draws Sides
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
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Football Games Soccer
Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)
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Hands Kevin Son

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