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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.

Alex Ferguson

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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
Football
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Cole
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Distances
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I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.
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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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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.
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It's a conflict of parallels.
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I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City)
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I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
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He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.
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That lad must have been born offside.
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It was time for me to spend more time with my wife. I'm not saying I do spend more time with my wife, because she would throw me out of the house, but we have breakfast together. I never did.
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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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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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There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.
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We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.
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I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.
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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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My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that.
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We once went 13 games without winning. There's always pressure here. Winning is always important here. How do you handle yourself and compose yourself is important. (on Manchester United)
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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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We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.
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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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