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He's a normal, likable, straightforward boy. (on David Beckham)

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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
Likable
Straightforward
Scotland
David
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Boys

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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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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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I think Rafael Benítez was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous.
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I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City)
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It's a conflict of parallels.
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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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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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I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.
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He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
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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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The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
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Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.
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Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.
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He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)
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The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.
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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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When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration
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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
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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 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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