Quote #28

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are. In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

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  1. '100,000 wouldn't buy him,' Tommy Docherty said. 'Yeah, I am one of the 100,000!,' replied Shankly.
  2. But that's where I live!
  3. I only wanted him for the reserves.
  4. Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son.
  5. Take that poof bandage off, and what do you mean you've hurt 'your' knee, it's Liverpool's knee!
  6. Aye, here we are with problems at the top of the league.
  7. We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.
  8. 'Where are you from?' 'I'm a Liverpool fan from London.' 'Well laddie ... What's it like to be in heaven?'

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