Manchester Quotes - Page 7

• Manchester United will be hoping their bench can come off the bench

  Ray Parlour

  Benches, Manchester United, United

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• I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

  John Squire

  Rose, Desire, Groups

  "No Second Coming Says Stone Roses Man". thequietus.com. March 19, 2009.

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• I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

  Steven Morrissey

  Revenge, Thinking, World

  "Stop me if you've heard this one before". "NME" Magazine, February 20, 1988.

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• Steve Jobs was Apple; Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United.

  David Gill

  Jobs, Apples, Alex

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• I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

  Eric Cantona

  Careers, Pinnacle, Manchester United

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• Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.

  Eric Cantona

  Stronger, World, Manchester United

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• Manchester City are defending like beavers

  Chris Kamara

  Cities, Beavers, Manchester City

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• We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united

  Morris Gleitzman

  May, United

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• Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the Premier League and in the whole of Europe.
  The things I have seen him do since I have been in Manchester have been incredible, amazing.
  It is just like a total show in training and even in the matches.
  This kid will one day arrive at the very top in the world of football - if he isn't there already - because he makes the most difficult plays look easy.

  Henrik Larsson

  Football, Kids, Cristiano Ronaldo

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• It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club.

  David Moyes

  Football, Jobs, Alex

  "David Moyes has six years to make his mark at Manchester United" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.

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• United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Fighting, Ends

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• Rooney's good but not the best in Manchester.

  Mario Balotelli

  Football, Rooney

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• The best illustration I can give of his talent is that at Manchester United there was always a possession drill in training designed to develop our passing ability, which might be three players against another three players, or six versus six, or nine versus nine. But no matter what the numbers were, the side with Paul Scholes on their team would always win by keeping the most possession.

  Gary Neville

  Team, Player, Winning

  "Scholes is simply the best English player of his generation". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 15, 2012.

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• It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.

  Damon Albarn

  Music, Nice, Boys

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• Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: 'I bet there were more standing pricks than snotty noses tonight'. Astonishingly, I suspect he was right. We probably helped to keep the home fires of passion burning.

  Eric Hiscock

  Girl, Memories, War

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• I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right.

  Harold Evans

  Jobs, Thinking, Editors

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.

  Craig Bellamy

  Football, League, Manchester United

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• Manchester United are substituting Blomqvist for Giggs just to bring more legs into the game.

  Tony Gale

  Football, Games, Giggs

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• If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

  Graeme Souness

  Football, Winning, Cities

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• I love the introduction of international managers and players into the Premier League. However Manchester United's principles through their history had always been: they will appoint a British manager, there will always promote youth, they will always play a certain style of football, they will always look to entertain. So to me the idea of appointing a British manager, David Moyes, appointing somebody who deserved that opportunity to step up, was the right principle.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Opportunity, Player

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• Of course I miss playing for Manchester United. I played there for six years and that’s a long time. I am still interested in watching Manchester United and, you never know, maybe in the future I could return to play there. It’s always possible. I want to fulfil my contract here but, in the future, only God knows. I will not say I am not happy here at Real Madrid. I am really happy and everyone knows this is my club but, of course, I miss Manchester United, the boss, the players, because I left family there.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Real, Player, Years

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• People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more frequent and accessible collections, particularly for those living in flats.

  Lucy Powell

  People, Want, Able

  "Without the supercasino, how can Manchester create 3,000 jobs?" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2008.

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• 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

  Football, Games, Manchester United

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hero, Europe, Heaven

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• To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

  Alvin Toffler

  Business, Thinking, Textiles

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