Motivation Quote by Paul Gascoigne

Loyalty, in Gascoigne's hands, is both a confession and a clever dodge. "But then" does a lot of work: it frames the whole statement as a gentle correction to whatever narrative was expected - that choosing Rangers over Manchester United needs defending. He’s not arguing that Rangers is bigger, richer, or smarter business. He’s saying it was always the itch he couldn’t stop scratching. That kind of desire is the most Gazza thing imaginable: impulsive, romantic, and stubbornly personal.

The line also reads like an athlete’s PR two-step, delivered with a wink. Praise the rejected suitor ("a great club"), anoint the manager ("a legend"), and you’ve inoculated yourself against the tabloid version of the story: ungrateful star snubs England’s biggest machine. Gascoigne knew the football media ecosystem even when he pretended not to. Complimenting Ferguson is less about deference and more about keeping the temperature down, especially in an era when Ferguson’s authority wasn’t just tactical - it was cultural.

The subtext is that football choices aren’t purely about trophies; they’re about identity and appetite. Rangers in the late '80s and early '90s carried glamour, intensity, and a kind of mythic spotlight - a stage where a mercurial showman could become folklore fast. Gascoigne positions the move as destiny rather than calculation, while still respecting the institution he bypassed. It’s a neat encapsulation of his career: a talent too big for tidy narratives, trying, briefly, to sound like someone who fits inside one.