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Bill Shankly (Coach)

I have been received more warmly bythan I have by . It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.

— Bill Shankly war

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

— Bill Shankly men

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

— Bill Shankly man

An interview on a Granada Television chat-show, hosted by Shelley Rohde on Wednesday 20th of May 1981, produced arguably Shankly's most famous (and most often misquoted) quote – "Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'." But on the official Liverpoolfc.tv website, it states that the official quote is "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." It is likely that Shankly paraphrased a quote attributed in the 1950s to Henry Russell Sanders, an American football college coach, although his was referring to a rival – "Beating 'SC is not a matter..."

— Bill Shankly life

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, its much more serious than that.

— Bill Shankly life

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