Quotes from George Best

Football is a sad game.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

They'll forget all the rubbish when I've gone, and they'll remember the football. If only one person thinks I'm the best player in the world, that's good enough for me.

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

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

I've always been a bit of a gypsy.

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

My one big regret is that I didn't play on for ten more years.

I don't have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don't really give a toss whether they're playing or not because they're getting paid anyway.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

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

David Beckham has never impressed me.

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.

You can't trust very many people.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don't see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

It's a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it's all about football. That's what they remember about me.

I dressed more like a pop star, I suppose, rather than the traditional blazer and tall trousers other players went for.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, 'I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.'

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