Frasi di Bill Shankly

„In una squadra di calcio c'è una Santa Trinità: i giocatori, il tecnico e i tifosi. I dirigenti non c'entrano. Loro firmano solo gli assegni.“

—  Bill Shankly

„Può crossare una palla dalla fascia con la precisione di un giocatore di biliardo.“

—  Bill Shankly

„Quando non ho niente di meglio da fare, do un'occhiata alla parte bassa della classifica per vedere come se la sta cavando l'Everton.“

—  Bill Shankly

„Alcuni credono che il calcio sia una questione di vita o di morte. Sono molto deluso da questo atteggiamento. Vi posso assicurare che è molto, molto più importante di quello.“

—  Bill Shankly

„Certo che non ho portato mia moglie a vedere il Rochdale come regalo d'anniversario: credete che mi sarei sposato durante il campionato? Ah, e poi giocava la squadra riserve.“

—  Bill Shankly

„Ci sono solo due squadre di calcio nel Merseyside: il Liverpool e le riserve del Liverpool.“

—  Bill Shankly

„Brian Clough è peggio della pioggia a Manchester. Almeno il Padreterno ogni tanto fa smettere di piovere a Manchester.“

—  Bill Shankly

„A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.“

—  Bill Shankly

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.“

—  Bill Shankly

[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]

„Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.“

—  Bill Shankly

Attributed to Shankly in 2013, thirty years after Shankly's death. However, very similar sayings are found anonymously from the late twentieth-century.
Disputed
Origine: http://www.empireofthekop.com/2013/07/26/liverpool-should-aim-for-epl-title-and-possibly-finish-in-the-top-four-by-liverpool_red1/
Origine: 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

„Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'.“

—  Bill Shankly

An interview on a Granada Television chat-show, hosted by Shelley Rohde on Wednesday 20th of May 1981

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

—  Bill Shankly

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