George Best famous quotes

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
-- George Best

#Past #Player #Choices

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted
-- George Best

#Funny #Silly #Drink

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

#Morning #Drunk #Intention

To call Keegan a superstar is stretching a point.
-- George Best

#Superstar #Stretching

I always wanted more - more of everything.
-- George Best

#Wanted

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

#Soccer #World #Salute

One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs.
-- George Best

#One Day #Giggs #Might

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

#Rocks #People #Dying

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
-- George Best

#Soccer #Missing #Kingdoms

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

#Soccer #Sports #Football

If I had been born ugly, you would have never heard of Pele
-- George Best

#Ugly #Born #Heard

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

#Drinking #Alcohol #Minutes

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

#Soccer #Drunk #Giving

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 Best

#Football #Feet #Goal

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
-- George Best

#Drinking #Beer #Drug

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
-- George Best

#Love Is #Mutual Respect #Mutual

Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!
-- George Best

#Pain #Forever #Lasts

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

#Six #Different #Done

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

#Records #Hours #Minutes

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 Best

#Men #Goal #Choices

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

#People #Missing #Four

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
-- George Best

#Team #Men #Choppers

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

#Strong #Loner

You can't trust very many people.
-- George Best

#People

I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.
-- George Best

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.
-- George Best

#Player #Today #Footballer

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

#Tvs #Watches #Found

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.
-- George Best

#Sometimes #Born #Streaks

Football is a sad game.
-- George Best

#Football #Games

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

#Fans #Firsts #Stadiums

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

#Missing #Three #World

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

#Children #Real #Fighting

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

#Crazy #Excited #Wayne

Don't die like I did.
-- George Best

#Last Words

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.
-- George Best

#Stars #Fighting #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.
-- George Best

#Soccer #Football #Player

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 Best

#Dad #Son #Men

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

#Thinking #Affection

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.
-- George Best

#Letting Go #Lying #Player

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for 10 more years.
-- George Best

#Regret #Years #Play

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.
-- George Best

#Waiting #Done #World

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.
-- George Best

#Mistake #Lying #Deceit

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

#Mind #Blame

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.
-- George Best

#Ill

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

#Icons #Found #Freaky