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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
Many
Trying
Years
Matt
Privileged
Followed
Maintain
Standards
United

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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 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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I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.
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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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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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They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.
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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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You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.
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Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
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It was time for me to spend more time with my wife. I'm not saying I do spend more time with my wife, because she would throw me out of the house, but we have breakfast together. I never did.
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Football, bloody hell!
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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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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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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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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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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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In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.
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I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
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Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.
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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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