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I've never played for a draw in my life.

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Alex Ferguson
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: December 31
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Autobiographer
Manager
Alexander Chapman Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson
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In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.
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The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.
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He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)
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Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.
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Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air. (on Wayne Rooney)
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They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!
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Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.
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I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
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Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.
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Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.
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If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.
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David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.
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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.
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Well, football is a hard game there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.
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He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
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It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.
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He's a normal, likable, straightforward boy. (on David Beckham)
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If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.
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Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.
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When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.
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