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As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.

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Alex Ferguson
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: December 31
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Autobiographer
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Alexander Chapman Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson
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Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.
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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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I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
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I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
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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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The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.
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Ronaldo could play for Millwall, QPR, Doncaster Rovers or anyone and he'd score a hat-trick. I'm not sure Messi could do it. Ronaldo's got two feet, he's quick, he's good in the air and he's brave, though Messi's brave too of course. I just think Messi is a Barcelona player.
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Jose [Mourinho] was one of those guys on a surfboard who can stay longer on the wave than anyone else.
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You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.
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We have to try to beat Everyone.
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In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.
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Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
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He's a normal, likable, straightforward boy. (on David Beckham)
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I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.
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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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The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
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Football, bloody hell!
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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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The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.
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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
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