Manchester Quotes - Page 2

• As long as we are
  successful on the pitch, then I
  will be here-unless Manchester United put in a call. But I don't think Sir Alex
  Ferguson is planning to step
  down just yet!

  Paul Ince

  Successful, Thinking, Long

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• Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

  Peter Hook

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Traits

  Interview with Matt Cotterill, higher-frequency.com. April 15, 2006.

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• I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

  Jim Sturgess

  Acting, Joining, Band

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• You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

  Graham Coxon

  People, Healthy, London

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• Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

  Daniel Defoe

  Village, England, Mere

  1724-7 A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, letter10.

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• I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we aren't doing anything anymore and we are living off of what the poor Chinese do." It is more complicated than that. There is the example of Detroit which was once a very prosperous and diverse city. And look what happened when it just specialized on automobiles. Look at Manchester when it specialized in those dark satanic mills, when it specialized in textiles. It was supposed to be the city of the future.

  Jane Jacobs

  Dark, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

  John Simm

  Interviews, Used, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.

  Bill Burr

  Real, Rocks, Cities

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Dream, Winning, Thinking

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• The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Football, Moving, Years

  "Howard Wilkinson's LMA survey reveals depth of managers' dedication" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Winning, Cities

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• It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.

  Patrice Evra

  Sacrifice, Past, Special

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• I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.

  Mike Leigh

  Hollywood, London, Saws

  "Big Think Interview With Mike Leigh". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.

  John Mahoney

  Mother, Years, Firsts

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• Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

  Tim Howard

  Kids, Years, Brain

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• Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.

  Johnny Giles

  Football, Clubs, Sometimes

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• There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.

  Alex Ferguson

  Years, Trophies, Manchester United

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• All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class

  Zinedine Zidane

  Player, Champions League, Class

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• Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

  Alan Hansen

  Soccer, Football, Air

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• What do you think of Manchester Uniteds three Rs - Rooney, Ronaldo and van Nistelrooy?

  Rob McCaffrey

  Thinking, Three, Rooney

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• Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian who is unknown to me lately described me as "the richest man in the world." That sounds a pretty big order, but when I come to think it out I believe he is not far wrong. A rich man is not necessarily a man with a whole pot of money but a man who is really happy. And I am that.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Time, Believe, Men

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• I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.

  Alex Ferguson

  Powerful, Player, Clubs

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

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• All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Football, Division

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• Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club.

  Arjen Robben

  Careers, Important, Clubs

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• I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.

  Adnan

  Winning, Player, League

  "Adnan Januzaj ready to commit his future to Manchester United". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2013.

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