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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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You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.
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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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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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It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.
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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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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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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 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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The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
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If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.
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To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.
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But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.
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All they can talk about is Manchester United.
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Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.
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Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
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It's a conflict of parallels.
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There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.
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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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Football, bloody hell!
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He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)
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