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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
Pace
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Power
Great
Scotland

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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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It's a conflict of parallels.
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Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.
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I've never played for a draw in my life.
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The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.
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There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.
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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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When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.
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There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.
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I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.
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I do like to try and see myself in football players. Everybody is different and express themselves in different ways. There are different kinds of talents of course and there are many who I would never have had the talent that they have when I was a player. But I still had that determination to be successful and try my best.
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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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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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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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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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If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.
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You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.
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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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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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