Bill Shankly citations

Bill Shankly OBE, né le 2 septembre 1913 à Glenbuck et mort le 29 septembre 1981 à Liverpool, était un footballeur et entraîneur de football écossais. Il a entraîné durant quinze ans le club de Liverpool FC et figure au Scottish Sports Hall of Fame, Scottish Football Hall of Fame et au English Football Hall of Fame depuis leurs créations, respectivement en 2001, 2004 et 2002. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. septembre 1913 – 29. septembre 1981
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Bill Shankly: Citations en anglais

“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)

“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.
Disputed
Source: http://www.empireofthekop.com/2013/07/26/liverpool-should-aim-for-epl-title-and-possibly-finish-in-the-top-four-by-liverpool_red1/
Source: Harrington and Kavanagh, Prayer for Parish Groups: Preparing and Leading Prayer for Group Meetings https://books.google.com/books?id=tnpYzxOSsDoC&pg=PT120&dq=%22Aim+for+the+sky%22+ceiling&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAGoVChMIoszvpuGkyAIVyD6ICh0pVwwm#v=onepage&q=%22Aim%20for%20the%20sky%22%20ceiling&f=false, p. 32, 1998