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

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

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

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

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I became a beach bum.

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

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.

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

I used to rush home to see 'Match Of The Day.' Whatever I was doing, I wouldn't miss it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Nobody knows me.

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

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.

I always wanted more - more of everything.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

You can't trust very many people.

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.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

The status quo sucks.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.