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Alex Ferguson

(1941) Association Football Player

149 quotes in 711 categories

A coach watches a player score a goal and calls him the best in the world, praising his amazing stats. He also talks about how the team works hard, running their socks into the ground, and how health lets him keep going until he decides to quit. He mentions that a short temper can be useful when it serves the right cause.

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Alex Ferguson is an association football player, best known for Leading.

Quick Facts About Alex Ferguson

Born: December 31, 1941
Profession: Association Football Player
Notable works: Leading

About Alex Ferguson

He is often called one of the greatest football managers ever, having won more trophies than any other manager in the sport’s history. Ferguson is praised for focusing on young talent, especially the Class of ’92 in the 1990s, which helped make Manchester United a very successful club worldwide.

Quotes by Alex Ferguson

That lad must have been born offside.

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Football, bloody hell!

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He could start a row in an empty house.

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It's a conflict of parallels.

Conflict

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We have to try to beat Everyone.

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You can't applaud a referee.

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I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.

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You can't do anything about them...

Funny

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

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The lads really ran their socks into the ground.

Football

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If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.

Consistency

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They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.

Football

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Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.

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All they can talk about is Manchester United.

Football

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Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.

Age

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Never give in or give up easily on a cause.

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I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

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He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

Book

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Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career…

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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…

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Jose [Mourinho] was one of those guys on a surfboard who can stay longer on the wave than anyone else.

Football

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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…

Focus

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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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Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.

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In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The…

Alcohol

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We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing…

Anxious

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It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good…

Great news

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David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest…

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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…

Determined

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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,…

Ability

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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…

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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…

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Scholes was probably the best English midfielder since Bobby Charlton. He was such a brilliant long passer that he could choose a…

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I never worried about teams who spend what they want to spend. It never bothered me. At the moment we have a…

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Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of…

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I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's…

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There was one or two offers that did come along during my time at United, but I always came back to this…

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It's a horrible part of the game when you have to tell a player, probably somebody who has helped you win so…

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I think Sepp Blatter is in danger...or has reached a point now, where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he's…

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He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As…

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