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The bottom line is that if a manager accuses me of faking injury I will not accept it. And I won't accept it to the day I die.
-Roy Keane

"That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that" - On the pony-tailed former England goalkeeper David Seaman.
-Brian Clough

"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there" - On the importance of passing the ball to feet.
-Brian Clough

After the 5:1 defeat by Ajax in the European Cup in 1967: 'We cannae play these defensive Continental sides.'
-Bill Shankly

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
-Roy Keane

To Jock Stein after the 1966 CWC tie with Celtic at Anfield: 'Jock, do you want your share of the gate money or shall we just return the empties ?'
-Bill Shankly

I've had my differences with thousands of people, including Sir Alex, but I'm humble enough to apologise if I've done something wrong. And yes, I apologised to him.
-Roy Keane

Tommy Docherty: 'You have to say Tony Hateley's good in the air.' Shankly:'Aye, so was Douglas Bader... and he had a wooden leg.'
-Bill Shankly

Bill Shankly after beating Everton in the '71 cup semi : "Sickness would not have kept me away from this one. If I'd been dead, I would have had them bring the casket to the ground, prop it up in the stands and cut a hole in the lid."
-Bill Shankly

Shankly to the Brussels hotel clerk who queried his signing 'Anfield' as his address on the hotel register: 'But that's where I live.'
-Bill Shankly