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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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Alex Ferguson
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: December 31
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
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Alexander Chapman Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson
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I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
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Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
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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 think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City)
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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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The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.
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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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He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
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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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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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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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In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.
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I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.
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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 my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.
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As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.
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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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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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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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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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