Irish - Athlete | May 22, 1946 - November 25, 2005
I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
George Best
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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.
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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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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.
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I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.
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I have always thought I was the best ever player.
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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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David Beckham has never impressed me.
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There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.
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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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It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.
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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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