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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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Alex Ferguson
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: December 31
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Alexander Chapman Ferguson
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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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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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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 most important thing in a game like that is to win it.
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He's a normal, likable, straightforward boy. (on David Beckham)
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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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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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Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.
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Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.
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Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.
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I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.
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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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If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.
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Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.
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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 understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
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It's a conflict of parallels.
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Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.
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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.
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I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
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