George Best Quotes

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George Best

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 22, 1946

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

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Players today moan about the number of games, but when you're young, you can't play enough.

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My long hair and the sideburns made me stand out, really, because my hairstyle was completely different to the other footballers of that era.

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

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At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

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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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Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

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It's a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it's all about football. That's what they remember about me.

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Nobody knows me.

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There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, 'I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.'

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I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

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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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From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there's a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

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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 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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In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

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

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When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league - Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

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I got my buzz from playing.

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