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I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.

Bill Shankly

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.
BILL SHANKLY

Eventually Everyone Idea Liverpool Wanted
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Player Soccer
Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week.
BILL SHANKLY

Finals Pits Trying
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Best Boss Character Fand Long Straighter
I was in the game for the love of football – and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Games People
First is first,Second is nothing
BILL SHANKLY

Firsts Game Nothing Second
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat – there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin’ in.
BILL SHANKLY

Four Men Overcoat
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Football Simple 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’.
BILL SHANKLY

Build Men People Selfless Share
He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.
BILL SHANKLY

Everything Hard Honest Score Skillful Totally
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
BILL SHANKLY

Death Football Life Soccer
Although I’m a Scot, I’d be proud to be called a Scouser.
BILL SHANKLY

Liverpool Proud Scots
Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt.
BILL SHANKLY

Passion Pride Team
Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.
BILL SHANKLY

Championship Countr Cup Final Pressure
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
BILL SHANKLY

Brain Soccer Use
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.
BILL SHANKLY

Game Greatest Minutes Ninty Quality Useless

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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