Top 94 Quotes About Scholes
#1. I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best.
Ryan Giggs
#2. Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.
Ron Atkinson
#3. Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.
Sven-Goran Eriksson
#4. I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.
Bobby Charlton
#5. My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
Zinedine Zidane
#6. For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.
Alan Shearer
#7. You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.
Zinedine Zidane
#8. Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!
Jack Wilshere
#9. Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes.
Charlie Munger
#10. Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.
Gordon Strachan
#11. Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I've ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.
Joey Barton
#12. We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it
Darren Fletcher
#13. 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
#14. I am a big admirer of Paul Scholes, he is one of the best players of his generation.
Arjen Robben
#15. I Wanted To Sign Scholes For Killie But Fergie Burst Out Laughing
Alex Totten
#16. Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.
Michael Lewis
#17. The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.
Andrea Pirlo
#18. I'd say Carrick has the qualities of a Scholes, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Busquets.
Gary Neville
#19. In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen - the most complete - is SCHOLES
Xavi
#20. I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.
Alex Ferguson
#21. I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he doesn't seek the limelight like some of the other 'stars'.
Thierry Henry
#22. Best player? For me, it's Paul Scholes. He'll do ridiculous things in training like say, "You see that tree over there?" - it'll be 40 yards away - "I'm going to hit it". And he'll do it. Everyone at the club considers him the best.
Rio Ferdinand
#23. Paul Scholes is literally on another planet
Kieron Dyer
#24. To me, Paul Scholes was in a class of his own.
Wayne Rooney
#25. Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend!
Gary Neville
#26. 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
#27. At Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn't want to face Scholes. We would avoid him.
Emmanuel Petit
#28. He's like a terrier, Scholes, he won't let go - even the postman would be afraid of him.
Jimmy Magee
#29. Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad.
Harry Redknapp
#30. I'm star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can't catch him. Off the pitch he disappears.
Luis Figo
#31. Maybe one small regret is that I never got to play with Paul Scholes - but I was never going to leave Barcelona and he was never going to leave Manchester United.
Xavi
#32. My principal contribution to the Black-Scholes option-pricing theory was to show that the dynamic trading strategy prescribed by Black and Scholes to offset the risk exposure of an option would provide a perfect hedge in the limit of continuous trading.
Robert C. Merton
#33. Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength and he is a genuine competitor.
Thierry Henry
#35. Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.
Zinedine Zidane
#36. I wouldn't swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.
Gary Neville
#37. 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
#38. The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.
Michael Lewis
#39. Rooney is one of the best players in the world and I love watching him play. But if you had to pick out only one, then for their history and for all that they have achieved it would have to be Paul Scholes or Ryan Giggs. They are two shining examples for any player.
Andres Iniesta
#40. For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's a team player, a one and two-touch footballer who makes good decisions on the pitch and makes his team play.
Thierry Henry
#41. The midfield picks itself - Beckham, Scholes, Gerrard and A N Other.
Phil Neal
#42. Scholes is very influential for England at international level.
Ron Atkinson
#43. Everyone of us should emulate him. We can all learn from Paul Scholes.
Peter Schmeichel
#44. What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.
Kevin Keegan
#45. Some of Paul Scholes' tackles come in so late they arrive yesterday.
Clive Tyldesley
#46. 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
#47. Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.
Bobby Charlton
#48. Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend.
Jordan Henderson
#49. Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on.
Carlos Queiroz
#50. It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.
Zinedine Zidane
#51. Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is.
Michael Carrick
#52. If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.
Alan Shearer
#53. Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team - that goes to show how highly I have always rated him. An all-round midfielder who possesses quality and character in abundance.
Marcello Lippi
#54. I tell anyone who asks me - Scholes is the best English player.
Laurent Blanc
#55. Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.
Gary Neville
#56. Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.
Michael Owen
#57. I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing - it's just beautiful to watch.
Bobby Charlton
#58. The greatest compliment I can pay Paul Scholes is that he reminds me of Bryan Robson, the way he bombs into the box.
Ray Wilkins
#59. Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are the centrefolds of Man United
Dwight Yorke
#60. From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.
Myron Scholes
#61. I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.
Myron Scholes
#62. My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.
Myron Scholes
#63. My view is that one should diversify broadly across different fund investments. However, it's tough for investors to try to pick the appropriate risk level that they should manage their funds at. Having a personal adviser would be helpful.
Myron Scholes
#64. I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong
Paul Scholes
#65. Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.
Robert Scholes
#66. There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.
Paul Scholes
#67. I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.
Paul Scholes
#69. I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.
Paul Scholes
#70. A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment.
Myron Scholes
#71. Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good,
Paul Scholes
#72. At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.
Paul Scholes
#73. I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.
Paul Scholes
#74. Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.
Myron Scholes
#75. Winning the Ballon d'Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.
Paul Scholes
#76. Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.
Ken Scholes
#78. Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.
Paul Scholes
#79. All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.
Myron Scholes
#81. If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.
Myron Scholes
#82. A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'
Myron Scholes
#83. My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.
Myron Scholes
#84. Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another.
Ken Scholes
#85. If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.
Myron Scholes
#86. Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
Myron Scholes
#87. Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?
Myron Scholes
#88. Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg.
Paul Scholes
#89. Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax credits and they come at the expense of investing in the new technologies of the future?
Myron Scholes
#90. The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.
Myron Scholes
#91. Steven Gerrard is the best player I've ever played with.
Luis Suarez
#92. The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated, or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms, especially the play, story, public oration, and personal essay.
Robert Scholes
#93. I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances.
Myron Scholes
#94. When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'
Paul Scholes
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