Top 41 Busby Quotes
#1. I think he [Sir Alex Ferguson] may have even surpassed the achievements of Matt Busby for Manchester United.
Kenny Dalglish
#2. The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.
Stanley Donen
#3. Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.
Johnny Giles
#4. One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.
Fran Lebowitz
#5. It really reminds me of the great movies of the 30's and 40's with huge sets and voluminous fireplaces you could walk around in. Glazed floors. I was expecting a Busby Berkley dance number. Big fanfare and all the girls coming out. I'd have joined in. It's got that scale, you know?
Ray Stevenson
#6. I didn't kiss him back even as my body went wild internally, blood being police escorted to certain extremities, endorphins diving out of my pituitary gland like they were in a Busby Berkeley musical, my heart going all heavy metal.
Eli Easton
#7. Jamie popped a handful of Skittles into his bottle of Grolsch. He took a swig and savoured the tangy sweets shrinking in his mouth. He glanced up at the pictures on the pub wall: Alexander Graham Bell, Busby the bird and Sam Spade. The picture of Bogart made Jamie want to put a fag in his mouth
Nasser Hashmi
#8. The Greatest" is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.
Mike Parry
#9. I wasn't concerned with the money stuff; I only wanted to play football.
Drew Busby
#10. You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.
Steve Busby
#11. I'd definitely like to study other things and keep on learning all the time, but I wouldn't want to do anything else. Ultimately, acting is my craft. I've always been interested in psychology and nutrition, but I don't know that I'd go and make that my profession.
Cindy Busby
#13. I'd say that I'm a very friendly, outgoing, happy person who just wants to make the people around me happy.
Cindy Busby
#14. When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place.
Drew Busby
#15. I think no matter what age you are, you know when you love something in your heart.
Cindy Busby
#16. United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.
Matt Busby
#17. I played for a lot of teams in my career, and I check all their results every Saturday, or at least the ones who haven't gone bust. But it's always Hearts first. They're the club who've really seeped into me.
Drew Busby
#18. Repentance, obedience, and spiritual growth bring feelings of love from God; and when we feel approved by God, we won't have to look for approval from others because we feel it from within.
Dean M. Busby
#19. Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.
Drew Busby
#20. Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.
Matt Busby
#21. Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.
Steve Busby
#22. This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.
Francine Busby
#23. It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.
Francine Busby
#24. Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.
Matt Busby
#25. People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.
Matt Busby
#26. To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I'm afraid that nothing surprises me any more.
Sian Busby
#27. At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.
Drew Busby
#28. Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
Francine Busby
#29. 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
#30. It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.
Matt Busby
#31. I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.
Cindy Busby
#32. I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
Francine Busby
#33. I didn't want to be one of those ex-pros, aye hanging around. I think that's wrong.
Drew Busby
#34. On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.
Cindy Busby
#35. Hearts was the pinnacle of my career. After I left, it really was downhill. Hearts is the club I always associate myself with, and I'm proud to have played for them.
Drew Busby
#36. People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.
Drew Busby
#38. Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.
Matt Busby
#39. Sometimes at night, when I was alone, or when I was at the pool, in the quiet stillness underwater, my mind would go to that place. To the hospital, to the people there. It was as if my heart could travel, over the miles, over the months that had passed, and I was back with her. Olivia
Cylin Busby
#40. I love taking pictures. I'm always the one with the camera!
Cindy Busby
#41. I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough.
Matt Busby
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