Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Busby

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish athlete Matt Busby.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Sir Alexander Matthew Busby was a Scottish football player and manager, who managed Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–71 season. He was the first manager of an English team to win the European Cup and is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time.

Scottish - Athlete | May 26, 1909 - January 20, 1994

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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.

Matt Busby

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.

Matt Busby

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

Matt Busby

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

Matt Busby

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.

Matt Busby

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.

Matt Busby

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

Matt Busby

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

Matt Busby

Football is nothing without fans.

Matt Busby