George Best

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

“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.”

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

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

“I always wanted more - more of everything.”

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

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

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

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

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

“המטרה החשובה ביותר שלי היא שאבי יחשוב שאני הכי טוב, והוא חושב כך.”

“פלה אמר שהוא חושב שאני השחקן הכי טוב בהיסטוריה. אני תמיד חשבתי שהוא השחקן הכי טוב.”

“אולי 'בודד' היא מילה חזקה מדי, אבל תמיד נהניתי להיות לבד.”

“אם כדורגל הוא אמנות, אז אני אמן.”

“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 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.”

“Nobody knows me.”

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

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

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