24 Quotes by Bobby Charlton

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    I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

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    Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful with the presence that he had.

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    Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

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    It doesn't really surprise me and I hope that what George Best has given to football will improve the game as we know it.

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    I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

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    I'm looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

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