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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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Referee
Umpires
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If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.
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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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At the last minute, from what I can gather, either Emmanuel Adebayor or his agent phoned us after they had agreed a deal with City and then did the same with Chelsea. He was desperate to get to either Chelsea or us.
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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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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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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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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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The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.
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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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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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I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
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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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He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice.
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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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I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.
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Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.
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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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You can't do anything about them.
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Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
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Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.
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