Players today moan about the number of games, but when you're young, you can't play enough.
George BestRead
We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the challenges faced by the first generation of football stars in managing fame.
George Best's quote highlights the unique struggles experienced by the early football stars in the modern era of celebrity and stardom. As the first generation to navigate the fame associated with football, some players found it easier to adapt, while others struggled, indicating that the pressures of public life and expectation can vary greatly from one individual to another.
In practice
In a sports psychology discussion about fame and performance, George Best's insight serves as a reference.
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.
There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
When you're building a business, you want to focus and deliver excellence at what you do. This simply cannot be done when you are launching multiple ventures, dozens of new products, and selling everywhere and anywhere at the same time.
There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
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