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I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

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Alex Ferguson
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: December 31
Association Football Manager
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Manager
Alexander Chapman Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson
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To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.
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They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.
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There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.
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You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
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If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.
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Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.
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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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Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.
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Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.
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I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't hide behind a bush on it in respect to the times that I did lose my temper. But you know the quality that I had when I lost my temper, I never, ever brought it back again.
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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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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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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've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
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I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.
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I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack Gillespie, and he offered me the manager's job at Ibrox. I was flattered but declined with thanks. John Greig was a good friend of mine and I had no intention of being involved in ousting him.
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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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The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.
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He's a normal, likable, straightforward boy. (on David Beckham)
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