Bill Shankly



William Shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish football player and manager, who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool.

Quotes

 * 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


 * The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life.

Disputed

 * Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
 * Attributed to Shankly in 2013, thirty years after Shankly's death. However, very similar sayings are found anonymously from the late twentieth-century. Harrington and Kavanagh, Prayer for Parish Groups: Preparing and Leading Prayer for Group Meetings, p. 32, 1998