Players today moan about the number of games, but when you're young, you can't play enough.
George BestRead
I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
Interpretation
Money can buy temporary affection but not genuine love.
George Best highlights the profound difference between affection, which can be influenced by material wealth, and true love, which is deeper and cannot be purchased. Genuine love requires emotional connection, commitment, and understanding, none of which can be acquired through financial means.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a speech on the importance of emotional connections in relationships.
Players today moan about the number of games, but when you're young, you can't play enough.
If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.
I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.
Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.
Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.
Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.
But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.
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