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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
Trying
Years
Matt
Privileged
Followed
Maintain
Standards
United
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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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Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air. (on Wayne Rooney)
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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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I've never played for a draw in my life.
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They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.
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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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Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.
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David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.
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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 you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.
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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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They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!
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I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
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The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.
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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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I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.
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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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Look at me – it's taken 10 years off me today. It's these tablets, they're great!
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