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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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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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Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.
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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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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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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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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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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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It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.
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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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I think Rafael Benítez was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous.
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I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
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There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.
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It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.
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If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.
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He could start a row in an empty house.
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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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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
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If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.
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Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire. But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.
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Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.
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