Quotes from George Best

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Football is a sad game.

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.

You can't trust very many people.

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

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

Drink,Drugs and shagging models. The rest I just wasted.' George Best on where his millions went.

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

If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pelé.

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

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.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you're young, you can't play enough.

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.

If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pele.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

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

Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there's a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

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

My long hair and the sideburns made me stand out, really, because my hairstyle was completely different to the other footballers of that era.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it's the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

I used to dream about taking the ball 'round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.