George Best Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by George Best:
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
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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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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
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I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn't very entertaining for me.
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We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.
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I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.
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There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.
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There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.
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Nobody knows me.
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In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
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When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.
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That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.
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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 have always thought I was the best ever player.
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If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.
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I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.
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I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.
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I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
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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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I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'
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The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it's the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.
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Football is a sad game.
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I always wanted more - more of everything.
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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 ill, and everyone could see it but me.
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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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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.
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You can't trust very many people.
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I don't have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.
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David Beckham has never impressed me.
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I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.
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I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
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It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.
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Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.
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