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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

Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson, also known by the nickname Fergie, is a Scottish former professional football manager and player, best known for managing Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, having won more trophies than any other manager in the history of football. Ferguson is often credited for valuing youth during his time at Manchester United, particularly in the 1990s with the "Class of '92", who contributed to making the club one of the most successful in the world.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Alex Ferguson · Page 3

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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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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I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not…

Clubs

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You can't applaud a referee.

Inspirational

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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.

Gary

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We once went 13 games without winning. There's always pressure here. Winning is always important here. How do you handle yourself and…

Games

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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…

Alex

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

Consistency

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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

Games

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

Fulfilling

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All they can talk about is Manchester United.

Inspirational

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Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.

Born

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You can't do anything about them...

Funny

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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…

Able

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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…

Categories

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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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One of the things I always thought about as a young coach was finding solutions to things that happened, but the most…

Coach

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“I want to apologise for my behaviour in my last year at United.”

Habits

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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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I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack…

Bed

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Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite…

Also

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He could start a row in an empty house.

Empty

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

Cristiano ronaldo

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

Consistency

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