''If you ever see the replay, you can see me blond head going from side to side. It was like, `Go on George, go on son!' Kenny Fogarty was the last one he had to beat, and Foggy said it was like being on a surfboard because he had him going every which way.''
— Ray Hudson, who played with and against George Best in the NASL, remembers one of Best's 54 NASL goals. Best died on Friday. (Sun-Sentinel)
''When he wasn't drinking, he was a jewel. He would come to our house and kick the ball around with my sons and the other kids on the block. But when he was in a drinking spell … He told me one time that if the ocean were alcohol, he could drink it all.''
— John Carbray, general manager of the NASL's San Jose Earthquakes when George Best played for them in 1980-81. (San Jose Mercury News)