George Best Quotes

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

  George Best

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.

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• 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

  Thankful, Past, Player

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

  George Best

  Drinking, Alcohol, Minutes

  "Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations". Book by Ned Sherrin, 2008.

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

  George Best

  Funny, Silly, Drink

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

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  Soccer, Missing, Ireland And The Irish

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• Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!

  George Best

  Motivational, Soccer, Pain

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  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, Difficult Choices, Goal

  "The Afterlife". Book by Paul Morley, April 23, 2009.

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

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  People, Missing, Three

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

  George Best

  Motivational, Soccer, World

  "George Best dies, aged 59" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.

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• 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

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

  George Best

  Ugly, Born, Heard

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

  George Best

  Morning, Drunk, Intention

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• 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

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• 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

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

  George Best

  Doctors

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• 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

  "How George Best Became The World's First Playboy Footballer" by Richard T Kelly, www.esquire.com. June 5, 2016.

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

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  Missing, Three, World

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

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  Mind, Blame, Ifs

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

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  Drinking, Food, Beer

  "Beating Them at Their Own Game: How the Irish Conquered English Soccer". Book by Patrick West, 2006.

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

  George Best

  Thinking, Affection

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• I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.

  George Best

  Mines, Liver

  Referring to his liver transplant. In Scoring at Half Time (2003).

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• You can't trust very many people.

  George Best

  People

  "Football's first icon". www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2005.

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

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  Records, Hours, Minutes

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• Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

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  Love Is, Mutual Attraction, Mutual Respect

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• 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

  Watches, Tvs, Found

  George Best (2012). “Blessed - The Autobiography”, p.196, Random House

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