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Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

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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
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Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.
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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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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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It's a conflict of parallels.
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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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The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
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You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.
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It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.
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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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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'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
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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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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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He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice.
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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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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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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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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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You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
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The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.
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