United Quotes
Thought I'd share these
"I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell."
ALEX FERGUSON JUST AFTER UNITED WON EUROPEAN CUP
"At the end of this game, the European Cup will be only six feet away from you and you'll not even able to touch it if we lose. And for many of you that will be the closest you will ever get. Don't you dare come back in here without giving your all".
ALEX FERGUSON HALF TIME TEAMTALK IN EUROPEAN CUP FINAL
"It would have been Sir Matt Busby's 90th birthday today, but I think he was up there doing a lot of kicking."
ALEX FERGUSON POST MATCH EUROPEAN CUP FINAL
"My greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their ****ing perch...and you can print that."
FERGIE RESPONDING TO ALAN HANSEN QUESTIONING HIS FUTURE IN SEPT 2002
"Just ****ing patch him up"
FERGIE TO CLUB PHYSIO AFTER KICKING BOOT THAT CUT BECKHAM'S HEAD
"It was a freakish incident. If I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could I would have carried on playing!"
FERGIE REPONDS TO THE PRESS ABOUT BECKHAM BOOT INCIDENT
"It's getting tickly now - squeaky-bum time, I call it".
FERGIE ON THE 2003 TITLE RACE
"I'm no ****ing talking to you. He's a ****ing great player. Yous are ****ing idiots"
SIR ALEX TALKS TO JOURNALISTS ABOUT VERON
"My greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their ****ing perch...and you can print that."
FERGIE RESPONDING TO ALAN HANSEN QUESTIONING HIS FUTURE IN SEPT 2002
"Eriksson would have been a nice easy choice for them [the United board] in terms of nothing really happens, does it? He doesn't change anything. He sails along, nobody falls out with him. He comes out and he says [faking a Swedish accent]: 'The first half we were good, second half we were not so good. I am very pleased with the result.' I think he'd have been all right for United, you know what I mean? The acceptable face.".
FERGIE ON SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON
"If he was an inch taller he'd be the best centre half in Britain. His father is 6ft 2in - I'd check the milkman."
ALEX FERGUSON ON GARY NEVILLE, 1996
"When an Italian tells me its pasta on the plate I check under the sauce to make sure"
ALEX FERGUSON BEFORE UNITED PLAYED INTER MILAN IN MARCH 1999
"Whether Dribbling or sprinting, Ryan can leave the best defenders with twisted blood"
FERGUSON ON RYAN GIGGS
"Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out."
ALEX FERGUSON ON ANDY COLE
"He goes to more funerals than anybody I have ever met."
KEN RAMSDEN, IN ‘UNITED WE STAND', ON SIR ALEX.
"Sir Alex has got such a stern exterior but behind the scenes he is almost this huge, larger-than-life comedian. He's always singing at the top of his voice."
REBECCA TOW IN 'UNITED WE STAND' BOOK
"This slice of pizza came flying over my head and hit Fergie straight in the mush. All mouths gawped to see this pizza slip off this famous, puce face and roll down his nice black suit."
ASHLEY COLE REVEALS WHAT HAPPENED IN "PIZZA-GATE" OCT 2004
"We are enjoying it greatly. It's a wonderful franchise and we just love it."
MALCOM GLAZER TALKS ABOUT HOW HE IS LOVING EVERY MINUTE AT THE MANCHESTER UNITED "FRANCHISE"
"I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it."
ROY KEANE
"Sometimes you wonder, do they understand the game of football? They have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch."
ROY KEANE ON SECTION OF THE OLD TRAFFORD CROWD
"I'd waited long enough. I ****ing hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you ****. And don't ever stand over me sneering about fake injuries."
ROY KEANE TALKING ABOUT ALF ENG HAALAND
"Even in the dressing room afterwards, I had no remorse. My attitude was, **** him. What goes around comes around. He got his just rewards. He ****ed me over and my attitude is an eye for an eye."
ROY KEANE TALKING ABOUT ALF ENG HAALAND TACKLE
"Who the **** do you think you are, having meetings about me? Mick, you're a liar... you're a ****ing wanker. I didn't rate you as a player, I don't rate you as a manager, and I don't rate you as a person. You're a ****ing wanker and you can stick your World Cup up your arse. The only reason I have any dealings with you is that somehow you are the manager of my country! You can stick it up your bollocks!!!"
ROY KEANE ALLEDGEDLY TO MICK McCARTHY MAY 2002
"I hope I don't come across as bitter and twisted but that man can rot in hell for all I care,"
ROY KEANE TALKING ABOUT MICK McCARTHY AUG 2002
"Just because you are paid £120,000-a-week and play well for 20 minutes against Tottenham, you think you are a superstar"
ROY KEANE 'PLAYS THE PUNDIT' ON MUTV TALKING ABOUT RIO FERDINAND, OCT 2002
"It seems to be in this club that you have to play badly to be rewarded. Maybe that is what I should do when I come back. Play badly"
ROY KEANE 'PLAYS THE PUNDIT' ON MUTV, NOV 2005
"He has discovered that, to football clubs, players are just expensive pieces of meat. The harsh realities remain and when a club decide they want to sell there is little you can do once the wheels are in motion."
ROY KEANE ON JAAP STAM'S ABRUPT OLD TRAFFORD EXIT NOV 2005
'If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat."
ROY KEANE OCT 1999
"They say Al Capone did some good things in his life. Trouble was, he would go out in the streets and shoot people. Keane is becoming United's Al Capone"
BRIAN CLOUGH COMPARES KEANO TO A 1930'S MAFIA MURDERER
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think that sardines will be thrown into the sea"
ERIC CANTONA
"My lawyer and the officials wanted me to speak. So I just said that. It was nothing, it did not mean anything. I could have said 'The curtains are pink but I love them'"
CANTONA EXPLAINS HIS FAMOUS SARDINES QUOTE
"It is fortunate that most players are not like me or there would be anarchy."
ERIC CANTONA
"A good goal is one that is important and beautiful."
ERIC CANTONA
"Leaving a club is like leaving a woman. When you have nothing left to say, you go."
ERIC CANTONA
"An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room.
I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud,
who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window.
There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity."
ERIC CANTONA
"Look at these small fry. I could piss on them"
ERIC CANTONA THREATENS SPORTS JOURNALISTS ON A FRENCH TELEVISION CHAT SHOW IN MARCH 2001
"In my opinion he's a flashy foreigner, he'll score goals for United....only when they'ere two up"
EMLYN HUGHES ON CANTONA'S ARRIVAL IN NOVEMBER 1992
"It is totally out of the question. There is no way we would sell him, or any of our best players"
FERGIE ON SELLING BECKHAM, 12TH APRIL 2003.
"There's been lots of stuff in the media about me and my future, but I can honestly say that there has been no contact between either me or my adviser, with Real Madrid, or any other club."
DAVID BECKHAM 6TH MAY 2003
"Never, never, never, never. Nothing, never, never, never. Not now. Not everâ€
REAL MADRID PRESIDENT FLORENTINO PEREZ ON SIGNING BECKHAM, APRIL 29TH 2003
"I tried it in Chinese the other night and drew some characters. It looks good and Victoria was impressed, but I copied it off a Chinese menu so I probably had fried rice, salt and pepper ribs and hot and sour soup over my arm instead of Victoria"
BECKHAM TELLS US ABOUT HIS NEW "VICTORIA" TATTOO
"I really like the clothes he wears, apart from my underwear. He keeps pinching my knickers."
VICTORIA 'POSH SPICE' BECKHAM
"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had."
DAVID BECKHAM
"Beckham cannot kick with his left foot, can't head the ball, can't tackle and he doesn't score enough goals. Otherwise he's all right."
GEORGE BEST
"I only have to open my mouth and I get totally slaughtered"
BECKHAM ACKNOWLEDGES HIS BIGGEST WEAKNESS IN 1997
"It's great. He has a lot of experience with Lazio and other clubs. It should be good, it will be good. We have got many good players and they will become a good team. He is a great manager. I think it will be a good thing."
BECKHAM ON SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON
"My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7"
DAVID BECKHAM
'I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet."
DAVID BECKHAM
"Well, I can play in the centre, on the right and occasionally on the left side."
DAVID BECKHAM
