Matt Busby Quotations

United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.

Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.

Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.

People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

Football is nothing without fans.

Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough.

In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.