Everything Quotes

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

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

There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.

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

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Football is a sad game.

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.'

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.

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'

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

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 have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

One reason I don't want to play in England again is because we don't have any personalities.

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

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.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

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.

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

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

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

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

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

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

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

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

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league - Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

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.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I got my buzz from playing.

I've always been a bit of a gypsy.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

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

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