Bill Shankly: Quotes about football

Bill Shankly was Scottish footballer and manager. Explore interesting quotes on football.
Bill Shankly: 10   quotes 3   likes

“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

“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," http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1691681,00.html The Guardian (2006-01-21)

“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.”

[Powley, Adam, Robert, Gillan, Shankly's Village: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Glenbuck and its Famous Footballing Sons, https://books.google.com/books?id=Qe7NCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT162&lpg=PT162&dq=%22The+socialism+I+believe+in+is+everyone+working+for+each+other,+everyone+having+a+share+of+the+rewards.+It%27s+the+way+I+see+football,+the+way+I+see+life.%22&source=bl#v=onepage, 2016-08-18, 2015, Worthing, UK, Pitch, 931595421, 9781785310706]

“At a football club, there's a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters.”

"Bill Shankly: Life, death and football" http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/oct/18/bill-shankly-liverpool-manager, The Guardian (2009-10-18)