Quotes About Manchester

#1. Above all, beware the crowd! The crowd only feels; it has no mind of its own which can plan. The crowd is credulous, it destroys, it consumes, it hates, and it dreams - but it never builds.

William Manchester

#2. If Peking wasn't stopped in the peninsular war, he argued, China would be recognized as "the military colossus of the East." U.S. prestige would plummet, and the world's new nations would gravitate toward neutralism.

William Manchester

#3. I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

Alan Shearer

#4. 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

#5. Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

Tony Wilson

#6. We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

Dave Mason

#7. I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.

Alan Hansen

#8. 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

#9. Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

Melissa Manchester

#10. It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.

Paul Ince

#11. At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#12. patriotism, vitiated by the growing global diaspora, has become parochial, a tarnished, disappearing virtue.

William Manchester

#13. There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.

Alex Ferguson

#14. I just want to get in the team and show all of them what I can do.
(on signing for Manchester united)

Wayne Rooney

#15. If you look around world, the great brands are Real Madrid, Manchester United. The Yankees, the Cowboys and the Lakers are there. We should aspire with the Maple Leafs to be there.

Tim Leiweke

#16. 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

#17. Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result they want against Manchester United.

Mark Lawrenson

#18. I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London ... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

Graham Coxon

#19. The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.

Rebecca West

#20. I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#21. Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

Graham Coxon

#22. My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it
does is that because the world is willing to listen to
them, it gives the kids a confidence and and a belief that
... what has happened before might happen again. It's something
to aim for.

Jimi Goodwin

#23. Football is the poetry of a motion.

Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

#24. I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing 'Arcadia,' and I suddenly thought, 'It feels a bit weird to go from a New York stage to Manchester University.' It didn't quite feel right.

Bel Powley

#25. Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.

Alex Ferguson

#26. I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.

William Manchester

#27. If I had a Paul Scholes in my team, everything would be around him. At Manchester United, they saw it like that, but I think Paul Scholes is one of the best I've played against in this league, and seen anywhere.

Thierry Henry

#28. I like it in Manchester. I thought it was going to be much colder, but it is not too bad. And my wife and son are happy here, too.

Sergio Aguero

#29. Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.

Eric Cantona

#30. 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

#31. Manchester is in the south of the north of England.
Its spirit has a contrariness in it
a south and north bound up together
at once untamed and unmetropolitan; at the same time, connected and wordly.

Jeanette Winterson

#32. I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

Steven Holl

#33. Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and comedians. You'd go in and Tom Jones might be singing, or Shirley Bassey or Engelbert Humperdinck.

Francis Lee

#34. When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

Louis J. Mordell

#35. It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

William Manchester

#36. Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United.

Robin Van Persie

#37. All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class

Zinedine Zidane

#38. His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

William Manchester

#39. Manchester United have risen to the pinnacle of the English game at a time when the rewards are so high - thanks to the ticket to the Champions League - that they have resources that only a handful of other sides, through merit or the exploitation of the people of Russia, can approach.

Phil Cornwell

#40. All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.

Tyson Fury

#41. I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

William Manchester

#42. You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!

Noel Gallagher

#43. I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.

Bernard Hill

#44. In Parliament a fellow MP whispered to him that his trousers were unfastened. "It makes no difference," Winston replied wryly. "The dead bird doesn't leave the nest.

William Manchester

#45. His effect on men is one of interest and curiosity, not of admiration and loyalty. His power is the power of gifts, not character. Men watch him, but do not follow him.

William Manchester

#46. If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.

Evelyn Waugh

#47. The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#48. It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

Jose Mourinho

#49. Churchill, too, offered Roosevelt a name for the war; it summed up in three words the entire legacy of the appeasers and isolationists: The Unnecessary War.

William Manchester

#50. He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

William Manchester

#51. All they can talk about is Manchester United.

Alex Ferguson

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

Graeme Souness

#53. 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

#54. Welbeck is not the standard required at Manchester United.

Louis Van Gaal

#55. That special Manchester rain that manages to be both vertical and horizontal at the same time.

Mhairi McFarlane

#56. I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us , but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.

Eric Cantona

#57. There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.

Alex Ferguson

#58. I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.

Simon Jordan

#59. We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.

Robbie Fowler

#60. I would like to apologize to the relatives of the fan who gave me 29 books to sign in Odyssey 7, Manchester. I'm a little twitchy towards the end of a day of signing and did not mean to kill and eat him.

Terry Pratchett

#61. I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

Melissa Manchester

#62. I admire David De Gea. I cannot remember anyone coming into Manchester United and being criticised the way he was. He was the subject of every debate in the media. You haven't seen De Gea defend himself in the media or shifting the blame elsewhere. He just gets on with it.

Peter Schmeichel

#63. In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

Robert Robinson

#64. I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.

Gordon Strachan

#65. Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.

Ron Atkinson

#66. She was the first woman to be hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester,

Sylvia Perrini

#67. Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

Bobby Charlton

#68. I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.

Yaya Toure

#69. I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

Eric Cantona

#70. I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester

Lars Iyer

#71. I miss Manchester, especially the apple crumble and custard they served at Carrington after training.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#72. The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.

Ricky Hatton

#73. 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

#74. Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.

Aidan Gillen

#75. Living in Manchester was like living on the moon ... wherever that might be

Johnny Giles

#76. If I was to transfer abroad at some stage, then it would only be to Manchester United

Mats Hummels

#77. He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

William Manchester

#78. My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

Sadie Frost

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

Tony Gale

#80. We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.

David Gill

#81. Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire.

Jimmy Hill

#82. The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

William Manchester

#83. I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind ...

Terry Pratchett

#84. Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

Kevin Keegan

#85. I like the city late at night, the blasts of music and the splashes of light cast from bars that are still open, shoals of brightly-dressed clubber, the beeping taxis and the greasy, savoury smell of meat and onions from the burger vans.

Mhairi McFarlane

#86. I liked the Paul Ince and Roy Keane partnership Manchester United had. They would have been my team had I moved to England.

Xavi

#87. I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester's my spiritual home. I've been in London for 22 years now but Manchester's the only other place, I think, in the country that I could live.

John Simm

#88. An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

William Manchester

#89. I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I'm on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is Malmaison. I recently stayed at the Malmaison in Manchester, which was pretty amazing. It had a fabulous bar and restaurants, as well as fantastic rooms with mood lighting.

Olly Murs

#90. 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

#91. I think he [Sir Alex Ferguson] may have even surpassed the achievements of Matt Busby for Manchester United.

Kenny Dalglish

#92. Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

William Manchester

#93. The thing about Manchester is ... it all comes from here

Noel Gallagher

#94. Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him ... Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.

Mike Ingham

#95. Women can be a rough trip, but there's no better ride on earth.

Steven Manchester

#96. What do you think of Manchester Uniteds three Rs - Rooney, Ronaldo and van Nistelrooy?

Rob McCaffrey

#97. I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

Noel Gallagher

#98. 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

#99. What does it mean when someone supports Manchester United or whatever it's called?"
...
"They always win. So they've started believing they deserve to.

Fredrik Backman

#100. Let's be honest. We're not Manchester United or Arsenal, are we?

Paolo Di Canio