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He's such a great threat because of his power and pace. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)

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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
Scotland
Pace
Threat
Power
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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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If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.
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Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.
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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 used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.
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The lads really ran their socks into the ground.
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I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.
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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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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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The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
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Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control.
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You can't applaud a referee.
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Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
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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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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
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Critics have always questioned whether players like Pele from the 50s could play today. Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and the present day, as could Di Stefano, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff because they are all great players. Lionel Messi without question fits into that category.
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They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.
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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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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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They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.
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