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Alex Ferguson
Age: 83
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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Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
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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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The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.
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I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.
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Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.
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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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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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Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.
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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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If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.
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I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding.
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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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Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.
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As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.
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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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I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.
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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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If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.
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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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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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