Manchester Quotes

In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

Manchester City are defending like beavers

I miss Manchester, especially the apple crumble and custard they served at Carrington after training.

I just want to say I've been lucky enough to travel all over the world and every time I come back to Manchester I'm addicted to this place.

All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester

Manchester United will be hoping their bench can come off the bench

Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.

Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.

The most beautiful sight in football is too watch Manchester United chase a game.

I just want to get in the team and show all of them what I can do. (on signing for Manchester united)

Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.

I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

As long as we are successful on the pitch, then I will be here-unless Manchester United put in a call. But I don't think Sir Alex Ferguson is planning to step down just yet!

You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.

I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.

There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.

It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

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

It never rains in Manchester, but it pours

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!

If I was to transfer abroad at some stage, then it would only be to Manchester United

If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

Because I'm from Manchester I'm always looking for a bit of blue sky wherever I can find it.

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff

It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.

I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. (on being Manchester City manager)

At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager)