Quotes About Matt Busby

#1. 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

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

Kenny Dalglish

#3. 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

#4. When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

Simon Van Booy

#5. Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

Matt Busby

#6. You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

Kenneth Koch

#7. I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.

Jerry N. Uelsmann

#8. Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Steven Wright

#9. And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like ... anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Joe Meno

#10. You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.

Rafik Hariri

#11. I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.

Estelle Morris

#12. United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.

Matt Busby

#13. Football is nothing without fans.

Matt Busby

#14. I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough.

Matt Busby

#15. I didn't think you were much for religion," Gavin said, trying to inject a bit of levity.
"Why would you think that? I speak with Orholam constantly."
" 'Orholam, what did I do to deserve this?' " Gavin suggested.

Brent Weeks

#16. 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

#17. Is it okay to go the roof of the tallest building in your town and jerk off into the street?

Eugene Mirman

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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