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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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Alex Ferguson
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: December 31
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Alexander Chapman Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson
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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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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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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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But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.
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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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I bet him he wouldn't get 15 league goals and I'm going to have to change my bet with him. If he gets to 15 I can change it and I am allowed to do that because I'm the manager. I'm going to make it 150 now!
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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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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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The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.
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I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.
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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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I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.
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Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.
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I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City)
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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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Look at me – it's taken 10 years off me today. It's these tablets, they're great!
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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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I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
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As long as there are games to play its not over
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