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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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Alex Ferguson
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: December 31
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Autobiographer
Manager
Alexander Chapman Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson
Years
Matt
Privileged
Followed
Maintain
Standards
United
Many
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
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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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