George Best quotes
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“If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both”
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“I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted”
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“I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.”
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“To call Keegan a superstar is stretching a point.”
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“Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.”
-- George BestSource : "George Best dies, aged 59" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.
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“One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs.”
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“People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.”
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“I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.”
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“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”
-- George BestSource : "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.
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“If I had been born ugly, you would have never heard of Pele”
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“In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.”
-- George BestSource : "Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations". Book by Ned Sherrin, 2008.
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“I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.”
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“He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.”
-- George BestSource : "How George Best Became The World's First Playboy Footballer" by Richard T Kelly, www.esquire.com. June 5, 2016.
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“I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.”
-- George BestSource : "Beating Them at Their Own Game: How the Irish Conquered English Soccer". Book by Patrick West, 2006.
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“Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.”
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“I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.”
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“I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes”
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“If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.”
-- George BestSource : "The Afterlife". Book by Paul Morley, April 23, 2009.
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“People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three”
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“Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them”
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“Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.”
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“I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.”
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“I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.”
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“I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.”
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“I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.”
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“When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it”
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“They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds?”
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“That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.”
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“Everyone went crazy over Wayne Rooney, but I get more excited by Cristiano Ronaldo.”
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“Don't die like I did.”
-- George BestSource : George Best's last words, published in "News of the World" with a picture of Best lying in his hospital bed, five days before his death, November 20, 2005.
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“Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.”
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“Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.”
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“The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.”
-- George BestSource : "DJ Chelsea Leyland Talks Music and Fashion!". Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. August 26, 2011.
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“I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.”
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“Me and a mate picked up two darling birds and they took us back to their flat. I went into the bedroom with my bird and she started getting undressed. I was that drunk I was standing there wondering how to get undressed without letting go of the award. I went to sit on the bed, missed it by four feet and ended up lying on the floor. I remember the bird looking down at me, and saying, ‘Some player of the year.’ Then I fell asleep. I woke up still clutching my award and staggered out of the flat. I hadn’t a bloody clue where I was.”
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“My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for 10 more years.”
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“I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.”
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“I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.”
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“If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.”
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“I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.”
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“That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.”
-- George Best
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