George Best Quotes

Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

George Best

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• And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Government
  • Design
  • End

• Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • World
  • Gold
  • Race

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Small
  • Movies

• What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Tomorrow

• Society becomes how we behave.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Society
  • How
  • Behave

• The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Community
  • Gay

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • Abuse
  • Critics

• Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Help
  • Luck
  • Dumb

• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Differences
  • Pie
  • Blur

• Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Job
  • Process

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Forever
  • Spring
  • Winter

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Change
  • Living
  • Grow

• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Morality
  • States

• In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

  

  Peter Asher
  • People
  • Business

• I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I had some mentors who said, 'You got what it takes. You should consider going to graduate school, getting a Ph.D. in neuroscience.' I didn't think I had what it took until somebody who had a Ph.D. told me I had what it takes.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Up
  • School
  • Education

• I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • Time
  • Done
  • Guy

• I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Business

• Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

  

  George Best
  • Business
  • Football