'After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.' (Eric Cantona has pays tribute to the late George Best)

'The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we come from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man.' (Norman Whi…

'What he had was unique, you can't coach it.', 'I think if you talk about Europe, you talk about five or six and if you talk about his qualities he'd always be…

'So George, where did it all go wrong?' (The hotel bellboy who delivered champagne to Best's room and found him entertaining a scantily-clad Miss World on a be…

I wouldn't swap Jermain Defoe for Miss World, but he would probably swap me for her.

[On Paul Gascoigne:] 'I once said Gazza's IQ was less than his shirt number and he asked me: 'What's an IQ?''

'He's not George Best, but then again, no-one is.' (Commentator Clive Tyldesley.)