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“Remember every team wants to beat Chelsea, probably even more than Manchester United or Arsenal because they believe we have an unfair advantage.”

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Author:Frank Lampard

“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)”

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Author:Gary Neville

“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)”

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Author:Stuart Pearce

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

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Author:Stuart Pearce

“I have a big job on my hands now, there is no mistaking that, but I feel as though I have calmness within myself. (on being Manchester City manager)”

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Author:Stuart Pearce

“I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for. (on Manchester City players)”

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Author:Stuart Pearce

“There are people who have been in this job for 20 years who will tell you that something new crops up every day. (on being Manchester City manager)”

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Author:Stuart Pearce

“When I look back now I wouldn't say that I cringe, but I start to realize how naive I was then. I feel much better suited for the job now. (on being Manchester City manager)”

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Author:Stuart Pearce

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

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Author:Wayne Rooney

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

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Author:Martin Samuel

“I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.”

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Author:Steve Diggle

“Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea.”

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Author:Didier Drogba

“One of my dreams is to become sufficiently famous that I can play this charity match that happens every year or two with celebrities at Old Trafford, at the house of Manchester United.”

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Author:Demian Bichir

“Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.”

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Author:Alice Lowe

“I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really good feeling for it. The sensibility there really suits me. I happened to have grown up in Manchester, a city that was a pretty cool place to be a musician. It's close to Portland in a lot of ways.”

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Author:Johnny Marr

“I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manchester. And it might be a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape and there's all these weird nuances and distortions that have affected what I know as the truth, if you like, of that track.”

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Author:Rob Brown

“I was in King Lear with Sir Tom Courtenay at The Royal Exchange in Manchester. In fact, that's where I met my husband. I was playing Regan and he was playing Cornwall and together we fell in love plucking out Gloucester's eyes. It was great fun. Everyone assumes that I was Cordelia because I've got blonde hair but I was Regan and they gave me a long auburn wig. It was great, good fun.”

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Author:Ashley Jensen

“I like Manchester, Birmingham. I really find this place very nice. Loved Australia. I thought that was awesome.”

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Author:Ric Flair

“I can tell you why I like different countries. Ireland - some of the funniest heckles I've ever gotten. And the last time I did England I did Bristol, Manchester, and then London. The whole country is just amazing to drive through.”

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Author:Bill Burr

“The whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.”

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Author:Bill Burr

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

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Author:Bill Burr

“A band that we supported called Blackfish in Manchester, played the most insane gig I've ever been to. Everything was set on fire, and then they came on and played one of the coolest gigs I've ever seen.”

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Author:Matthew Healy

“I am a great fan of Manchester United.”

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Author:Suresh Raina

“I think nowadays Manchester United is more competitive than it's ever been. Obviously, over the last one or two decades, they've always had one challenger or two challengers maybe, whether it be Arsenal or Chelsea.”

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Author:Michael Owen

“Manchester United will always be a competitor, just because of the very size of them.”

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Author:Michael Owen

“For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the biography of General MacArthur. Because of that I ended up reading "Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener and then because of that reading his "Hawaii." That is what happens.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“In terms of not retiring? I don't want to leave and think to myself, "Maybe I should have stayed a bit longer". I'm dwelling on it. I have turned down a few Premier League offers. But the fact is, after being at Chelsea for so long and a year with Manchester City, I don't want to get involved in a relegation dogfight.”

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Author:Frank Lampard

“It's the saddest year in movies. We've got "Manchester," "Moonlight," "Chronic," "Jackie" ... it's sad when "American Honey" is the happiest film of the year and it's about runaways aimlessly trying to figure out their lives with no parental figures.”

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Author:Nick Kroll

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

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Author:Dom Thomas

“I want to play football, I love to play football so if that opportunity is not going to be given there [Manchester City] then I'm going to have to look elsewhere and may have to make somewhere else my home.”

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Author:Joe Hart

“I would love to go to smaller places in the UK such as Manchester and Liverpool and play there. It's much more intimate; you got to get down and gritty, getting closer to the people.”

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Author:Raphael Saadiq

“I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we aren't doing anything anymore and we are living off of what the poor Chinese do." It is more complicated than that. There is the example of Detroit which was once a very prosperous and diverse city. And look what happened when it just specialized on automobiles. Look at Manchester when it specialized in those dark satanic mills, when it specialized in textiles. It was supposed to be the city of the future.”

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Author:Jane Jacobs

“There is one school of thought that says Mayors should cut ribbons, be funny and be a buffoon. The other school of thought is that we can do more. Scotland is getting more powers. Wales is getting more powers. Greater Manchester. London needs more powers.”

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Author:Sadiq Khan

“I love the introduction of international managers and players into the Premier League. However Manchester United's principles through their history had always been: they will appoint a British manager, there will always promote youth, they will always play a certain style of football, they will always look to entertain. So to me the idea of appointing a British manager, David Moyes, appointing somebody who deserved that opportunity to step up, was the right principle.”

“I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.”

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Author:Gary Neville

“There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.”

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Author:Michael Owen

“I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.”

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Author:Karl Pilkington

“Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S.”

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Author:Lucy Powell

“I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.”

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Author:Lucy Powell

“In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.”

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Author:Lucy Powell

“People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more frequent and accessible collections, particularly for those living in flats.”

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Author:Lucy Powell

“Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.”

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Author:Lucy Powell

“These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.”

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Author:Lucy Powell

“We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.”

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Author:Gordon Ramsay

“The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.”

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Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18 I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.”

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Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.”

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Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.”

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Author:Alvin Toffler

“I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

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