Top 100 Quotes About Manchester
#1. It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.
Carlos Tevez
#2. I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.
John Simm
#3. 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
#4. All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.
David Gill
#5. One of my dreams is to become sufficiently famous that I can play this charity match that happens every year or two with celebrities at Old Trafford, at the house of Manchester United.
Demian Bichir
#6. 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
#7. I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London and did the Royal Court, the National, 'King Lear' at the Manchester Royal Exchange. I did little bits of comedy, like 'Rab C Nesbitt,' but I wasn't predominantly about comedy.
Ashley Jensen
#8. 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
#9. When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
Yaya Toure
#10. They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.
Alex Ferguson
#11. Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.
Lucy Powell
#12. I know the city and the club, and I can tell you that when you play for Manchester United at Old Trafford, you no longer need to see the sunshine every day.
Patrice Evra
#13. If Real Madrid land on Manchester airport, then the airport will be surely flooded just to see one player whom fans want most. Everyone knows the name, I don't need to tell it. He is the Prince and legend of Manchester,The King and legend of Real(Madrid). 'CRISTIANO RONALDO'
Gary Neville
#14. Why anyone would want to leave Everton is beyond me anyway. Even for Manchester United, Chelsea or anyone. This is the place to be.
Neville Southall
#15. Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.
Tim Howard
#16. After watching Watford against Manchester City last night
that was like a bubblebath. It was beautiful.
Eamon
#17. I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
Gary Neville
#18. I'm home. I hope the Manchester United fans forgive me for being late.
Robin Van Persie
#19. I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.
John Simm
#20. The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.
Bianca Walkden
#21. I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy; we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.
Sprague Grayden
#22. I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.
Steve Diggle
#23. I live in Wales but spend quite a lot of time in London - I stay with my brother. When I get home after being in Manchester or London for a bit, I forget how dark the sky is, and I won't have seen stars for ages.
Kimberley Nixon
#24. Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.
Craig Bellamy
#25. Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.
Justin Chadwick
#27. If you aren't the chairman of Manchester United, Real Madrid or AC Milan, I'll get back to you later.
Joe Kinnear
#28. It's not like there's no work in Scotland, but speak to any actor, and they'll tell you it's limited. So you have to go to London or Manchester to broaden your horizons.
Greg McHugh
#29. We once went 13 games without winning. There's always pressure here. Winning is always important here. How do you handle yourself and compose yourself is important.
(on Manchester United)
Alex Ferguson
#30. 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
#31. Yes, I thought I was joining Manchester United, I was misled by all involved. I wasnt aware of another Manchester team
Robinho
#33. An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.
Nick Hornby
#34. I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.
Alex Ferguson
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. There's only two teams in Manchester. City and City reserves!" How right he was!
Dante Friend
#38. Both Chelsea and Manchester United will be challenging for the Premiership title next season.
Roy Evans
#39. Remember every team wants to beat Chelsea, probably even more than Manchester United or Arsenal because they believe we have an unfair advantage.
Frank Lampard
#40. In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.
Nemanja Vidic
#41. As long as we are
successful on the pitch, then I
will be here-unless Manchester United put in a call. But I don't think Sir Alex
Ferguson is planning to step
down just yet!
Paul Ince
#42. There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.
Michael Owen
#43. I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
John Mahoney
#44. The Manchester Derby is bigger and more important than El Classico.
Diego Maradona
#45. We will go back to playing like Manchester United.
Ryan Giggs
#46. On the hop from Manchester to New York, she and Bill settled into adjoining seats at the front of the jet. They fell asleep, her head on his shoulder and his head propped against hers.
Jonathan Allen
#47. I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.
Gary Neville
#48. For my last 15 years at United I had a rolling one-year contract and an agreement that if I was sacked I would be entitled to two years' salary, even if I turned up and started managing Manchester City the day after I was fired. That was more than enough for me.
Alex Ferguson
#49. Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.
Charlie Nicholas
#50. 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
#51. This is Manchester, we do things differently here
Tony Wilson
#52. Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.
Chris Coleman
#53. The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Sergio Aguero
#54. I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.
John Squire
#55. I left London to migrate to Manchester because at that time it was -- if you had a personality disorder and a good record collection -- the most interesting place to be in the world.
James Maker
#56. We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.
Noel Gallagher
#57. Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength ... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!
Laurent Blanc
#58. Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
Warren Rudman
#59. In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.
Lucy Powell
#60. A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
John Lubbock
#61. In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.
Iain Duncan Smith
#62. Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.
Benjamin Disraeli
#63. I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
Alex Ferguson
#64. Two of my boys are Manchester United fans; one is an Arsenal fan. Whenever there is a game I can take the boys to, I love taking them.
David Beckham
#65. 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
#66. They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none.
Simon Brotherton
#67. Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.
Danny Boyle
#68. I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
John Thaw
#69. I'm very happy at City, very happy since the day I came. I knew that the project was good, and in my head, there is nothing else but Manchester City, so how long I'm going to be at City is just never a question.
Sergio Aguero
#70. Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club.
Arjen Robben
#71. When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
Ian McKellen
#72. Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
A.J.P. Taylor
#73. At United, there are great traditions, which you can't buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#74. I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education.
James Nesbitt
#75. I love Manchester. Everyone knows that - I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#76. My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
James Nesbitt
#77. In mid-70s Manchester there must be obsessive love of vagina, otherwise your life dooms itself forever.
Morrissey
#78. I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.
Brendan Rodgers
#79. That first group of Manchester players allowed me to enjoy coaching at a very young age that motivated me to do it. If it wasn't good, I might have made a career change.
Steve Alford
#80. 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
#81. Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea.
Didier Drogba
#82. He emphasized once again that all action and adventure with moments of meaning happen in a place called elsewhere, and never in the sad soil of Manchester.
Morrissey
#84. 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
#85. Winning the Ballon d'Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.
Paul Scholes
#86. I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.
Roy Keane
#87. I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.
Sophie Hannah
#88. It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]
Owen Hatherley
#89. A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.
David Gill
#90. I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.
Lucy Powell
#91. I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.
Justin Chadwick
#92. I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was.
(on Manchester City)
Alex Ferguson
#93. For me, Paul Scholes is on the same level as Ronaldo. The real Ronaldo, not Cristiano. I always thought he was a great player but after I played alongside him I realised he was Manchester United's greatest player of all time. He did his talking on the pitch which I respected most.
Fabien Barthez
#94. It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.
Patrice Evra
#95. In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.
Lucy Powell
#96. The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football ... the perfect match for me.
Robin Van Persie
#97. Manchester City, the club and the fans, they were amazing. But I'm sorry, the city wasn't that nice. I was all the time at home, and I didn't enjoy it. It was raining all the time. I was a little bit upset.
Mario Balotelli
#98. In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.
James Nasmyth
#99. If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view.
Robert Clive
#100. In 1988, William Manchester began writing The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, the third and final volume of his biography of Winston Churchill.
William Manchester
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