Some people believe football is a matter of life and death.
I'm very disappointed with that attitude. A Personal View Many of the quips and quotes of Bill Shankly have passed into legend down the years. The most famous and oft repeated one is of course is the 'life and death' one. The quote has become the definitive Shankly, the one destined to find it's way into all those smart books of quotations in years to come. It has of course taken on extra resonance in post Heysel and Hillsborough Britain, particularly in Shankly's own beloved Liverpool, the city that bore the brunt of those twin disasters.