Bill Shankly
William Shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish football (soccer) manager.
Quotes·Quotations by Bill Shankly
Football (Soccer)
@ A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
Quoted by John Toshack in Kevin McCarra, "How Benítez built Liverpool," The Guardian (2006-01-21)
@ At a football club, there's a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters.
"Bill Shankly: Life, death and football", The Guardian (2009-10-18)
@ Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'.
An interview on a Granada Television chat-show, hosted by Shelley Rohde on Wednesday 20th of May 1981,
¶ Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
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@ I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
From his autobiography It's More Important Than That (1976), discussing the period after his retirement
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