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George Best Quotes

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.

– George Best

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.’

– George Best

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

– George Best

I used to dream about taking the ball ’round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

– George Best

You can’t trust very many people.

– George Best

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

– George Best

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.

– George Best

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.

– George Best

I’m lucky that, despite all the bad press I’ve had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

– George Best

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

– George Best

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

– George Best

I always wanted more – more of everything.

– George Best

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.

– George Best

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

– George Best

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

– George Best

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

– George Best

I used to rush home to see ‘Match Of The Day.’ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

– George Best

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.

– George Best

Nobody knows me.

– George Best

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

– George Best

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

– George Best

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

– George Best

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

– George Best

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

– George Best

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

– George Best

I became a beach bum.

– George Best

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

– George Best

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.

– George Best

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

– George Best

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

– George Best

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