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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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I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
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All they can talk about is Manchester United.
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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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Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control.
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He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
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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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He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice.
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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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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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Critics have always questioned whether players like Pele from the 50s could play today. Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and the present day, as could Di Stefano, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff because they are all great players. Lionel Messi without question fits into that category.
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Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air. (on Wayne Rooney)
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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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When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.
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Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.
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I've never played for a draw in my life.
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Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.
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I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.
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I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.
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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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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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