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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
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Alexander Chapman Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson
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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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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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My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that.
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He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
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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'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
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Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.
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Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside 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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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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Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
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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 tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.
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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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Football, bloody hell!
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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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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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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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The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.
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If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'
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