“Alfredo di Stéfano is maybe the greatest player I have ever seen. I watched him in a match when Manchester United played against Real in the semi-final of the European Cup in Madrid the year before the accident. In those… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share
“He was simply the most intelligent football player I ever saw. If I had one player to choose, out of all of them, to save my life, he'd be the one.” — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
“Alfredo di Stéfano is maybe the greatest player I have ever seen. I watched him in a match when Manchester United played against Real in the semi-final of the European Cup in Madrid the year before the accident. In those days, there was no substitutes' bench; if you weren't playing, you were in the stand. I felt like I was… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share
“The eccentric passion of Shankly was underlined for me by my England team-mate Roger Hunt's version of the classic tale of the Liverpool manager's pre-game talk before playing Manchester United. The story has probably been told a thousand times in and out of football, and each time you hear it there are different details, but when Roger told it the… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share
“He was simply the most intelligent football player I ever saw. If I had one player to choose, out of all of them, to… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff,… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. Players… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
Tottenham have impressed me. They haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
