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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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Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.
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I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.
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You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.
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Jose [Mourinho] was one of those guys on a surfboard who can stay longer on the wave than anyone else.
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Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.
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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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He's such a great threat because of his power and pace. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)
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Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
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If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.
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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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The lads really ran their socks into the ground.
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You can't applaud a referee.
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Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.
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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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At the last minute, from what I can gather, either Emmanuel Adebayor or his agent phoned us after they had agreed a deal with City and then did the same with Chelsea. He was desperate to get to either Chelsea or us.
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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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Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.
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Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.
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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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