George Best Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

You can't trust very many people.

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

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

Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Football is a sad game.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

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

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

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

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

To call Keegan a superstar is stretching a point.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I always wanted more - more of everything.

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.

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

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.

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.