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I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

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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
Hell
Sports
Believe
Alex
Bloody

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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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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
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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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In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.
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I do believe in fate.
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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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You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.
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Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.
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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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Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.
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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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He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.
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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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The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
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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 don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
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When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration
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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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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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