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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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The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
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Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.
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Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.
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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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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 work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.
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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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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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They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.
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All they can talk about is Manchester United.
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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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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 always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.
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You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.
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They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.
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Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.
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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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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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There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.
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