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Quotes About Manchester

Everyone who works for Manchester respected me. I tried to help, and I am very grateful to them.
~ David de Gea
As soon as Jose Mourinho was given the job, I knew that he was the right man for Manchester United.
~ Diego Forlan
I Googled every actor from my favorite film 'Annie.' Albert Finney was also from Manchester and he went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - so I auditioned there, too.
~ Wunmi Mosaku
I know people say that all the time, but for me, it's true: Manchester really is my second home.
~ Tulisa
I'm doing things in Manchester with the Trafford Sports Park in partnership with the Manchester United foundation and I'm also doing things in Newcastle as well. It's something I'm passionate about.
~ Michael Carrick
You need to start making an effort," Richard said. "There's a thing called the gay scene nowadays. It happens in large cities – London, Manchester, er, wherever.
~ Philip Hensher
I got to play The Vortex in London with the Buzzcocks, the Fall, me and Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers. That was a serious Manchester night.
~ John Cooper Clarke
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
I truly wanted to move to United. I wanted to wear this shirt.
~ Angel Di Maria
I grew up in Denton, east Manchester, and was raised by my late father, Reg, a barber.
~ Mick Hucknall
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
Manchester United is a great club. I am very happy to be here, and because of this, I am happy to be patient.
~ Radamel Falcao
I liked the generation of Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs, who I admired. I was a little bit jealous of Karel Poborsky who played in Manchester and experienced great matches. I know he still feels that love.
~ Pavel Nedved
I always ask Paul Pogba about Manchester United. I think they are a huge club with a really good infrastructure.
~ Antoine Griezmann
My best memory was probably scoring a penalty against Manchester United.
~ Ashley Cole
There was a poem, she said, by Beckett that he had written twice, once in French and once in English, as if to prove that his bilinguality made him two people and that the barrier of language was, ultimately, impassable. I asked her whether she lived in Manchester, and she said no, she had just been up there to teach another course, and had had to fly straight from there to here.
~ Rachel Cusk
I live in Wales but spend quite a lot of time in London - I stay with my brother. When I get home after being in Manchester or London for a bit, I forget how dark the sky is, and I won't have seen stars for ages.
~ Kimberley Nixon
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
I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy; we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.
~ Sprague Grayden
There is not much sun, but I didn't move to Manchester to go to the beach.
~ Henrikh Mkhitaryan
There's only two teams in Manchester. City and City reserves!" How right he was!
~ Dante Friend
Clubs like Manchester United or Barcelona have a system, and then you hire personnel who fit this system.
~ Philipp Lahm
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
True Dare Kiss' is a gothic drama about a highly dysfunctional Mancunian family who, after 20 years, reconvene for the funeral of their father. I wanted to play Phil because I really liked the character, and there is an element of mystery about her - which I can't reveal.
~ Dervla Kirwan