Bill Shankly, właśc. William Shankly – szkocki trener piłkarski. Został odznaczony Orderem Imperium Brytyjskiego.
Shankly, zanim wybuchła wojna, był piłkarzem. Grał na pozycji skrzydłowego. Po wojnie zaczął swoją pracę jako trener. Największe sukcesy osiągnął z angielskim Liverpool F.C. Trzy razy zwyciężył z tym klubem w angielskiej ekstraklasie, raz w Pucharze UEFA, i dwa razy sięgnął po Puchar Anglii.
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„Jeśli jesteś pierwszy, to jesteś pierwszy. Jeśli jesteś drugi, jesteś niczym.”
If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing. (ang.)
Źródło: liverpoolfc.com http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/bill-shankly-in-quotes
„Problem z sędziami polega na tym, że znają zasady, ale nie znają gry.”
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game. (ang.)
Źródło: liverpoolfc.com http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/bill-shankly-in-quotes
Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that. (ang.)
Źródło: „Guardian”, 24 grudnia 1973, za: liverpoolfc.com
An interview on a Granada Television chat-show, hosted by Shelley Rohde on Wednesday 20th of May 1981
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)
[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
Źródło: http://www.empireofthekop.com/2013/07/26/liverpool-should-aim-for-epl-title-and-possibly-finish-in-the-top-four-by-liverpool_red1/
Źródło: 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
