George Best quotes:

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  • I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

  • I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

  • 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

  • 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

  • I can remember earning ú5,000 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.

  • Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

  • 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.

  • That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

  • Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three

  • If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

  • Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.

  • People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

  • Don't die like I did.

  • Everyone went crazy over Wayne Rooney, but I get more excited by Cristiano Ronaldo.

  • 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.

  • Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

  • Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!

  • 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.

  • You can't trust very many people.

  • I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

  • In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

  • One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs.

  • Football is a sad game.

  • I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • He's not fit to lace my boots as a player. (on Kevin Keegan)

  • I always wanted more - more of everything.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.

  • I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted

  • I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.

  • I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

  • I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes

  • I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.

  • I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.

  • 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.

  • I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

  • My one big regret is that I didn't play on for 10 more years.

  • That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.

  • There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. A great entertainer needs to have charisma.

  • They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds?

  • They told me I wouldn't make 25. Then it was 35, then 45. These were my doctors speaking - they're all dead now.

  • To call Keegan a superstar is stretching a point.

  • When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it

  • If I had been born ugly, you would have never heard of Pele

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