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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.

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
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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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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 have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.
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I realized I was good at developing young people. Eventually I started to believe in young people. I think when you give a young person an opportunity, he always believes who gave him his first chance. You create a loyalty that lasts a lifetime.
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Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
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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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He's such a great threat because of his power and pace. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)
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If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.
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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 do believe in fate.
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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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It's a conflict of parallels.
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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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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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Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control.
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The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.
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He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
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You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.
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