130 Quotes by George Best

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

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

I got my buzz from playing.

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 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.

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

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

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