Manchester Quotes - Page 5

• For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the biography of General MacArthur. Because of that I ended up reading "Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener and then because of that reading his "Hawaii." That is what happens.

  Dave Barry

  War, Reading, Hawaii

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I want to play football, I love to play football so if that opportunity is not going to be given there [Manchester City] then I'm going to have to look elsewhere and may have to make somewhere else my home.

  Joe Hart

  Football, Home, Opportunity

  "Joe Hart: Man City keeper says he is 'surplus to requirements'". Interview with Steve Bower, www.bbc.com. MArch 10, 2017.

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• I would love to go to smaller places in the UK such as Manchester and Liverpool and play there. It's much more intimate; you got to get down and gritty, getting closer to the people.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Play, People, Down And

  Source: www.contactmusic.com

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• There is one school of thought that says Mayors should cut ribbons, be funny and be a buffoon. The other school of thought is that we can do more. Scotland is getting more powers. Wales is getting more powers. Greater Manchester. London needs more powers.

  Sadiq Khan

  School, Cutting, Scotland

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• I just want to get in the team and show all of them what I can do. 
  (on signing for Manchester united)

  Wayne Rooney

  Team, Want, England

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• At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. 
  (on being Manchester City manager)

  Stuart Pearce

  Men, Cities, Clubs

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• If I had a Paul Scholes in my team, everything would be around him. At Manchester United, they saw it like that, but I think Paul Scholes is one of the best I've played against in this league, and seen anywhere.

  Thierry Henry

  Team, Thinking, League

  "Thierry Henry names Paul Scholes as the greatest Premier League player of all time" by Aaron Flanagan, www.mirror.co.uk. October 28, 2015.

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• Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it. Too small, you would think - can't run, dumpy little ginger nut - but then the ball would come to him and he would dazzle you. He was the best footballer in that Manchester United midfield, better than Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane.

  Harry Redknapp

  Running, Football, Player

  "A Man Walks On To a Pitch: Stories from a Life in Football". Book by Harry Redknapp, October 9, 2014.

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• It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

  Bill Burr

  Blue, Cities, White

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• For me, Paul Scholes is on the same level as Ronaldo. The real Ronaldo, not Cristiano. I always thought he was a great player but after I played alongside him I realised he was Manchester United's greatest player of all time. He did his talking on the pitch which I respected most.

  Fabien Barthez

  Real, Player, Talking

  "Fabien Barthez picks his #One2Eleven - The Fantasy Football Club". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. August 23, 2014.

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• Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

  Kevin Keegan

  Country, Mean, Cities

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• I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. 
  (on being Manchester City manager)

  Stuart Pearce

  Jobs, Cities, Challenges

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• Maybe one small regret is that I never got to play with Paul Scholes - but I was never going to leave Barcelona and he was never going to leave Manchester United.

  Xavi

  Regret, Play, Barcelona

  "Xavi: My Only Regret Is Not Playing With Scholes". Interview with David Lynch, www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. August 06, 2014.

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• When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

  Graham Coxon

  London, Stuff, Places To Go

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• Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

  Graham Coxon

  Mean, Pride, Thinking

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• All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

  David Gill

  Perspective, Different, May

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• I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

  John Mahoney

  Growing Up, Children, Character

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• In terms of not retiring? I don't want to leave and think to myself, "Maybe I should have stayed a bit longer". I'm dwelling on it. I have turned down a few Premier League offers. But the fact is, after being at Chelsea for so long and a year with Manchester City, I don't want to get involved in a relegation dogfight.

  Frank Lampard

  Thinking, Cities, Dwelling

  "JAMIE CARRAGHER INTERVIEWS FRANK LAMPARD: Foul-mouthed clashes, Steven Gerrard's emotional bouquet and why ex-Chelsea man still hasn't retired". Interview With Jamie Carragher, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 27, 2017.

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• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Fighting, Years

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• In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

  James Nasmyth

  Brother, Machines, London

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.161, BoD – Books on Demand

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• As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.

  Neil Lennon

  Football, Team, Player

  "Celtic's Neil Lennon: I haven't bettered this Barcelona win in my life" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

  Hayley Atwell

  Dad, Aunt, Virginia

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• Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

  Bobby Charlton

  Football, Player, Spirit

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• I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.

  Simon Jordan

  People, Bullshit, World

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• When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. 
  (on Manchester United)

  Gary Neville

  Team, Player, Mountain

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