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When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it
George Best / Soccer Player
Fans
Firsts
Stadiums
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I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.
George Best / Soccer Player
Bad Press
Despite
Lucky
Seems
Press
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I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
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Affection
Thinking
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Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.
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Outdo
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People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.
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Bottom
Dying
People
Rocks
Almost
Hit
People I Can Tell
Gets
Rock
People Say
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It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.
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Life Football My Life
Slowly
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Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.
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Big Business
Football
Side
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People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three
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Missing
People
Three
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The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it's the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.
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Football
Rubbish
Me Remember People
Football Me Remember
Nice Thing
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I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.
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Drunk
Giving
Soccer
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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.
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Objection
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They told me I wouldn't make 25. Then it was 35, then 45. These were my doctors speaking - they're all dead now.
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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.
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Dad
Father's Day
Men
Every Man
Son
Best Father's Day Dad
Heir
Wants
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We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.
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Stardom
First Generation
Handled
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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.
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Tall
Traditional
Trousers
Blazer
Dressed
Suppose
Pop Star
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Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.
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Broke
Dave
Superstar
Carried
Definition
Leg
Walked
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There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.
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Pinnacle
Players
Few
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Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.
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Men
Color
Looks
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Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.
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Fighting
Player
Stars
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I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.
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Done
Waiting
World
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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.
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Compliment
Football Me Remember
So Many People
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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.
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Fifa
Knowledge People Understanding
Packed
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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.
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Different
Different Times
Done
Funny Soccer
Six
Different Places
Places
Supposed
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He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.
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Feet
Football
Goal
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My long hair and the sideburns made me stand out, really, because my hairstyle was completely different to the other footballers of that era.
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Long Hair
Stand
Footballers
Me Long Hair
Hairstyle
Me Long Long Hair
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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.'
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Clubs
Manchester
Memories
Restaurants
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Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them
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Men
Choppers
Team
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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.
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Noise
Touched
Ball
Concert
Hear
Noticed
Screaming
Shrill
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If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both
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Thankful
Decision
Past
Player
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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.
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Enough
Football
Forget
Gone
Player
Remember
Rubbish
Best Good World
Best Good Football
Thinks
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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.
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Paid
Toss
Anyway
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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.
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Arsenal
Battle
Contention
League
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
Lots
Game
Teams
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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.
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Footballer
Profile
Agent
Sell
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I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.
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Footballer
Player
Today
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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.
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Found
Tvs
Watches
Grips
Happening
Identify
Screen
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Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.
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Cristiano Ronaldo
Football
Soccer
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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.
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Charisma
Fabulous
Pace
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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.'
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Fifth
Footballer
Long
Long Hair
Long Long Hair Hair
Also
Beatle
Beatles
Nickname
Career
Coming
Got
Peak
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If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.
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Men
Difficult Choices
Goal
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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.
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Division
Fans
Managers
Avoid
Behind
Players
Season
Teams
Top
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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.
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Decided
Earning
Entertaining
Friday
London
Revenue
Saturday
Seventies
Me Game Remember
Commute
Game Me Remember
Inland
Lasted
Two-Thirds
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I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.
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Deceit
Lying
Mistake
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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.
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Dream
Hands
Left
Stopping
Against
Ball
Nearly
Dead
Cup
European
Final
Round
Heading
Line
Net
Taking
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Me and a mate picked up two darling birds and they took us back to their flat. I went into the bedroom with my bird and she started getting undressed. I was that drunk I was standing there wondering how to get undressed without letting go of the award. I went to sit on the bed, missed it by four feet and ended up lying on the floor. I remember the bird looking down at me, and saying, ‘Some player of the year.’ Then I fell asleep. I woke up still clutching my award and staggered out of the flat. I hadn’t a bloody clue where I was.
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Letting Go
Lying
Player
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