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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'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 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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Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.
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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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As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.
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I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't hide behind a bush on it in respect to the times that I did lose my temper. But you know the quality that I had when I lost my temper, I never, ever brought it back again.
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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've never played for a draw in my life.
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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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He's a normal, likable, straightforward boy. (on David Beckham)
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Ronaldo could play for Millwall, QPR, Doncaster Rovers or anyone and he'd score a hat-trick. I'm not sure Messi could do it. Ronaldo's got two feet, he's quick, he's good in the air and he's brave, though Messi's brave too of course. I just think Messi is a Barcelona player.
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He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.
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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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You can't do anything about them.
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Well, football is a hard game there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.
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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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He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
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I realized I was good at developing young people. Eventually I started to believe in young people. I think when you give a young person an opportunity, he always believes who gave him his first chance. You create a loyalty that lasts a lifetime.
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I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.
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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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