Manchester Quotes
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Manchester Quotes & Sayings
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This is Manchester, we do things differently here
— Tony Wilson
Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff
— Martin Samuel
I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.
— Jim Sturgess
I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.
— Brendan Rodgers
It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.
— Noel Gallagher
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
— Mark Twain
When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team.
(on Manchester United) — Gary Neville
(on Manchester United) — Gary Neville
As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
— William Manchester
I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of Manchester United by me is seen as biased.
— Sebastian Coe
Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.
— Alice Lowe
If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.
— Graeme Souness
There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.
— Lev Yashin
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
— William Manchester
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
— William Manchester
Stuart is good for Manchester City. It is not hard to see his passion for the game, and his commitment.
(on Stuart Pearce) — Robbie Fowler
(on Stuart Pearce) — Robbie Fowler
In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
— Bobby Charlton
Football is all about sentiment; if it weren't then we'd all support Manchester United.
— Mark O'Brien
To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.
— William Manchester
The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
— William Manchester
But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.
— William Manchester
People who go to Italy to look at ruins won't have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in the future.
— William Manchester
OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2 ... priceless.
— Salman Rushdie
It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]
— Owen Hatherley
patriotism, vitiated by the growing global diaspora, has become parochial, a tarnished, disappearing virtue.
— William Manchester
Don't cry out loud, keep it inside, learn how to hide your feelings. Fly high and proud, and if you should fall, remember you almost had it all.
— Melissa Manchester
I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.
— John Simm
I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea
— Tom Hanks
If you aren't the chairman of Manchester United, Real Madrid or AC Milan, I'll get back to you later.
— Joe Kinnear
It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.
— Carlos Tevez
Manchester's got everything except a beach.
— Ian Brown
It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.
— William Manchester
I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.
— John Squire
I liked the Paul Ince and Roy Keane partnership Manchester United had. They would have been my team had I moved to England.
— Xavi
What do I think of the reverse sweep? It's like Manchester United getting a penalty and Bryan Robson taking it with his head
— David Lloyd
We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.
— Gordon Ramsay
The country life near Manchester I really love.
— Ruud Van Nistelrooy
If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.
— Ronald Koeman
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
— Peter Hook
I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
— William Manchester
I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education.
— James Nesbitt
When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
— Ian McKellen
Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.
— Kevin Keegan
You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.
— Vincent Tan
I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was.
(on Manchester City) — Alex Ferguson
(on Manchester City) — Alex Ferguson
I think he [Sir Alex Ferguson] may have even surpassed the achievements of Matt Busby for Manchester United.
— Kenny Dalglish
I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave,
— Jamie Carragher
Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
— Alan Hansen
When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.
— Eric Cantona
The sum of a million facts is not the truth.
— William Manchester
When I call him a son of a bitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth.
— William Manchester
All they can talk about is Manchester United.
— Alex Ferguson
I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.
— Melissa Manchester
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
— William Manchester
Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.
— Ron Atkinson
I miss Manchester, especially the apple crumble and custard they served at Carrington after training.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
The truth is so precious," Churchill told Stalin, "that she should always be protected by a bodyguard of lies.
— William Manchester
The Manchester Derby is bigger and more important than El Classico.
— Diego Maradona
Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
— A.J.P. Taylor
there are times when a truly remarkable soldier must resort to unorthodox behavior, disobeying his superiors to gain the greater glory.
— William Manchester
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
— William Manchester
Let's be honest. We're not Manchester United or Arsenal, are we?
— Paolo Di Canio
Winning the Ballon d'Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.
— Paul Scholes
Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.
— Alex Ferguson
I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
— Nat Faxon
I didn't not perform.
— Melissa Manchester
We will go back to playing like Manchester United.
— Ryan Giggs
I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester
— Lars Iyer
Manchester United is still in my heart. Disappointed they didn't win the title but they are still the kings of Premier League.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
I love Manchester. Everyone knows that - I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.
— Adnan
My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
— James Nesbitt
Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.
— Chris Coleman
There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.
— William Manchester
Please understand that we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
— William Manchester
Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation
— George Orwell
His sadness was almost palpable, like moisture in the air before it rains. Although this was Manchester, it was probably about to rain anyway.
— Mhairi McFarlane
We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.
— Noel Gallagher
Out of everyone at Manchester United, I would pick out Scholes, he is the best midfielder of his generation. I would had loved to play alongside him.
— Pep Guardiola
Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.
— Eric Cantona
We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.
— Robbie Fowler
There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.
— Michael Owen
I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford.
(on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United) — Rio Ferdinand
(on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United) — Rio Ferdinand
Yes, I thought I was joining Manchester United, I was misled by all involved. I wasnt aware of another Manchester team
— Robinho
I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.
— Eric Cantona
In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.
— Matt Busby