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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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We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.
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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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Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.
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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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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.
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Players know that they can trust me which is really important. They know that I had the ability to adapt to change, and they have seen that many times over the years. I think these are important parts of being in control of footballers.
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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 he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.
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Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.
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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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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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It's a conflict of parallels.
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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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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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The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.
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Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.
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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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Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.
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We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.
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Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.
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