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Alex Ferguson

(1941) Association Football Player

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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 · Page 3

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely…

Health

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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…

Failure

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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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Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.

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I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing…

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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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Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.

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Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

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There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something.…

Cities

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It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing…

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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…

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“With young people you have to try to impart a sense of responsibility. If they can add greater awareness to their energy…

Responsibility

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“As long as you don’t criticise individual players in public, admonishing the team is fine, not a problem. We can all share…

Collective responsibility

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.

Evolution

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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…

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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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The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.

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…

Cat

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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

Bird

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Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.

Achievement

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

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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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You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

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But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

Derby

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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 -…

Being the best

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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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It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost…

Football

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If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that…

Alive

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I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost…

Cities

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Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

Advice

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I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City)

Cities

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Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

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Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.

Competing

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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

Football

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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…

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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.

Class

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I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

Football

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Alex Ferguson by topic

Football (95) Inspirational (43) Time (21) Thinking (19) Games (17) Manchester united (16) Winning (13) Team (13) Manchester (12) Soccer (11) Scotland (11) Play (11)