Manchester United Quotes

“It was victory – handsomely achieved – that sold. Nothing else would do. And Ferguson, Cantona, Giggs and the new United provided it.”
― Jim White, Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club

“Celtic won the European Cup, beating Internazionale in Lisbon with a team made up of players who hailed from within twelve miles of Celtic Park. It was a Glasgow team of Glasgow men.”
― Jim White, Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club

“Together Law, Charlton and Best – Old Trafford’s golden trinity – made Manchester United.”
― Jim White, Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club

“Crerand recalls, it gave them an injection of confidence. ‘After winning the Cup, we realised that we could then win anything,’ he says. ‘It was the start of our good run in the 1960s, much like Alex Ferguson’s success in 1990 was the start of what has become the greatest era in United’s history.”
― Jim White, Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club

“To play for Manchester United in 1956 was not remotely of the same order of national prominence as to play for them half a century later. Not least because Taylor, Edwards, Viollet and the rest were on a basic wage of £15, with an appearance fee of £5 and a win bonus of £3.”
― Jim White, Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club

“The three most important assets in a footballer, he always said, were ‘skill, flair and character’.”
― Jim White, Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club

“Some of the habits back then seem not so much of another era as from a different planet. On the Friday lunchtime before home games, for instance, the trainer Tom Curry used to inflate the match ball, lace it up and immerse it in a bucket of water, where it stayed, kept submerged by a brick, until just before kick-off. It would then be pulled out ready for action, saturated, weighing about half a ton.”
― Jim White, Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club

“What that picture represents is the first ever photographic record of a tracksuit manager in British football.”
― Jim White, Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club

“The ground hosted an international between England and Scotland in April 1926, which the Scots won 1-0 in front of a crowd of forty-nine thousand.”
― Jim White, Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club

“Identifying with success makes those doing the identifying seem successful themselves. The day United falter, many of these supporters will doubtless take their affiliation with them to Real Madrid or Barcelona or whoever it is that can provide them anew with a vicarious sense of worth.”
― Jim White, Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club