Paul Scholes Quotes

Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football. ~ Bobby Charlton

He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he's proving just as effective from outside the box because he's using his experience in the right way. It doesn't matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world. ~ Alex Ferguson

What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football. ~ Kevin Keegan

Everyone of us should emulate him. We can all learn from Paul Scholes. ~ Peter Schmeichel

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career. ~ Michael Owen

To me, Paul Scholes was in a class of his own. ~ Wayne Rooney

Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good, ~ Paul Scholes

If I had a Paul Scholes in my team, everything would be around him. At Manchester United, they saw it like that, but I think Paul Scholes is one of the best I've played against in this league, and seen anywhere. ~ Thierry Henry

I'm star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can't catch him. Off the pitch he disappears. ~ Luis Figo

It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play. ~ Zinedine Zidane

Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is. ~ Michael Carrick

Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game. ~ Gary Neville

Maybe one small regret is that I never got to play with Paul Scholes - but I was never going to leave Barcelona and he was never going to leave Manchester United. ~ Xavi

Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are the centrefolds of Man United ~ Dwight Yorke

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything. ~ Paul Scholes

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do. ~ Paul Scholes

When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems to get better and better. I've had the honour of playing alongside him. The four years I've played alongside him, he is the best player, one of the first names on the manager's teamsheet. He is just a complete legend. There are not enough players like Paul Scholes around any more for my liking. 'Legend' is over-used but this guy is right up there with the very best. ~ Dwight Yorke

I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi. ~ Paul Scholes

Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend. ~ Jordan Henderson

For me as a midfielder, Paul Scholes was the best possible teacher. When people ask me my hardest opponent, I always refer to Paul in training. Facing him improved me so much because his astonishing quality gave me something to aim for. He never gave the ball away, he could nutmeg you, he could make you look a fool, his range of passing was remarkable, his touch and awareness, everything was top notch. Seeing Scholesy made you stand back and realize you had a long way to go, because he was awesome. ~ Darren Fletcher

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.' ~ Paul Scholes

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong ~ Paul Scholes

I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible. Elusive is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then - blink - he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball. ~ Paul Scholes

The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders. ~ Andrea Pirlo

Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb. ~ Gordon Strachan

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home. ~ Paul Scholes

Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad. ~ Harry Redknapp

Rooney is one of the best players in the world and I love watching him play. But if you had to pick out only one, then for their history and for all that they have achieved it would have to be Paul Scholes or Ryan Giggs. They are two shining examples for any player. ~ Andres Iniesta

I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best. ~ Ryan Giggs

For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak. ~ Alan Shearer

The greatest compliment I can pay Paul Scholes is that he reminds me of Bryan Robson, the way he bombs into the box. ~ Ray Wilkins

Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I've ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend. ~ Joey Barton

The best illustration I can give of his talent is that at Manchester United there was always a possession drill in training designed to develop our passing ability, which might be three players against another three players, or six versus six, or nine versus nine. But no matter what the numbers were, the side with Paul Scholes on their team would always win by keeping the most possession. ~ Gary Neville

Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg. ~ Paul Scholes

Best player? For me, it's Paul Scholes. He'll do ridiculous things in training like say, "You see that tree over there?" - it'll be 40 yards away - "I'm going to hit it". And he'll do it. Everyone at the club considers him the best. ~ Rio Ferdinand

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football. ~ Paul Scholes

Winning the Ballon d'Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United. ~ Paul Scholes

Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on. ~ Carlos Queiroz

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable. ~ Paul Wolfowitz

There are no inevitabilities in history ~ Paul Johnson

After a noticeable silence, he'd recently published a book of technically baffling poems, with line breaks so arbitrary and frequent as to be useless, arrhythmic. On the page they look like some of Charles Bukowski's skinny, chatty, muttering-stuttering antiverses. Impossibly, Mark's words make music, the faraway strains of an irresistible jazz. It's plain to any reader, within a few lines - well, go read the poems and see, Marcus Ahearn traffics with the ineffable. He makes the mind of the speaker present, in that here-and-now where the reader actually reads - that place. Such a rare thing. Samuel Beckett. Jean Follain, Ionesco - the composer Billy Strayhorn. Mark calls his process "psychic improvisation" and referred me to the painter Paul Klee; the term was Klee's. "You just get out a pen and a notebook and let your mind go long," he told me. ~ Denis Johnson

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive. ~ Paul Henderson

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. ~ Paul Theroux

My signature line of clothing for Satya Paul will showcase a distinctive aspect of my own personal style. Co-creating and endorsing a line for one of India's finest brands will be a new experience for me ~ Gauri Khan

Meanwhile, we on this dying Earth can relax and rejoice for our loved ones who are in the presence of Christ. As the apostle Paul tells us, though we naturally grieve at losing loved ones, we are not "to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope" (1 Thessalonians 4:13). Our parting is not the end of our relationship, only an interruption. We have not "lost" them, because we know where they are. They are experiencing the joy of Christ's presence in a place so wonderful that Christ called it Paradise. And one day, we're told, in a magnificent reunion, they and we "will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words" (1 Thessalonians 4:17-18). ~ Randy Alcorn

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces. ~ Paul Bremer

Man cannot relinquish himself or the place in the visible world that belongs to him; he cannot become the slave of things, the slave of economic systems, the slave of production, the slave of his own products. A civilization purely materialistic in outline condemns man to such slavery, even if at times, no doubt, this occurs contrary to the intentions and the very premise of its pioneers. ~ Pope John Paul II

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work. ~ Paul Stanley

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time. ~ Paul Rand

Then at once "human nature" is again invoked to prove the necessity of change, for "human nature" has been thwarted or insulted by the dominant system. "Man" can no longer be defined as what suits the dominant system, when the dominant system apparently does not suit men. I ~ Paul Goodman

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. ~ Paul Ricoeur

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. ~ Paul Wellstone

Of course I know Julie Andrews. She's the last of the really great broads. ~ Paul Newman

Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley. ~ Paul Fussell

Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals. ~ Martin Lel

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. ~ Paul Hawken

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

[Paul] Ryan won kudos both within his membership and the party base for not giving in. ~ Christopher Michael Cillizza

The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective, legislation has now gone so far that it may well be asked what purpose or plan there is or what possible outcome there can be from a system that confines the native within a legal status that has more in common with that of a born idiot than of any other class of British subject. ~ Paul Hasluck

The withdrawal of philosophy into a "professional" shell of its own has had disastrous consequences. The younger generation of physicists, the Feynmans, the Schwingers, etc., may be very bright; they may be more intelligent than their predecessors, than Bohr, Einstein, Schrödinger, Boltzmann, Mach and so on. But they are uncivilized savages, they lack in philosophical depth – and this is the fault of the very same idea of professionalism which you are now defending. ~ Paul Karl Feyerabend

American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it. ~ Paul Guilfoyle

Statistics or graphs,'" are not optimal to understand the 'experience of suffering.'" (qtd in Sutton 11) ~ Paul Farmer

Michelle Rodriguez is like the most original person on the planet. She's so straight up, uncensored all the time. Be ready. I love her for that. ~ Paul Walker

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan. ~ Paul Feig

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. ~ St. Vincent De Paul

Caroline, sister of William, was trained by him as a singer in the Bath days and had considerable success in Handel's oratorios under her brother's conductorship. (The method of training adopted was for her to sing the violin parts of concertos with a gag in her mouth.) It was with great reluctance that she dropped music to be trained as an assistant astronomer, yet she made discoveries - eight minor planets, one of them named after her. ~ Percy Scholes

Man always travels along precipices ... His truest obligation is to keep his balance. ~ Pope John Paul II

Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time. ~ Paul Samuelson

The 5,500-squarefoot house was custom built with a Mediterranean decor. It was the exact opposite of the dingy hotel rooms he stayed in when he was on the road. This house was very open with high ceilings, so even giant-like friends like Kevin Nash could hang out with no issue...
Shawn conducted a class as I photographed away. Students Lance Cade, Bryan Danielson (Daniel Bryan), Brian Kendrick, Paul London and others did calisthenics and other exercises. After an hour or so they got into the ring to do some falls and learn a few holds....
Here I was face-to-face with Shawn Michaels, and he asked me, "What do you want to do?" My mouth spewed words faster than I could think, as I whispered so the students wouldn't hear, "Shoot me into the ropes. When I come back on the rebound I will give you a flying dropkick and then put you in the figure-four leglock for the win. ~ Bill Apter

Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives. ~ Paul Lieberstein