Top 100 Alex Ferguson Quotes
#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success
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#5. 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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#6. I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding.
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#10. The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.
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#11. I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
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#13. I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.
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#15. I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.
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#16. There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.
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#17. Jamie Carragher trained with United as a youngster. When he was with us he was a midfielder and a mundane, run-of-the-mill player.
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#18. I placed discipline above all else and it might have cost us several titles. If I had to repeat things, I'd do precisely the same, because once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success and set the stage for anarchy.
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#19. When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration
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#20. 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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#21. Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.
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#22. Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.
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#23. Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes ... you just know.
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#24. It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.
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#25. Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.
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#26. Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.
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#27. Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.
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#28. As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.
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#29. 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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#30. If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.
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#31. The way to win battles, wars and games is by attacking and overrunning the opposing side.
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#32. Onde you bid farewell to discipline you day goodbye to success
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#33. Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
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#34. For me drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat. At
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. A housefly has a longer life expectancy than the manager of a Premier League team.
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#38. The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.
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#39. 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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#40. I realized I was good at developing young people. Eventually I started to believe in young people. I think when you give a young person an opportunity, he always believes who gave him his first chance. You create a loyalty that lasts a lifetime.
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#42. When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.
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#43. I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.
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#44. In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.
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#45. But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.
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#46. Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.
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#47. The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
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#48. The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.
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#49. Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.
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#51. 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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#52. If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.
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#53. 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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#54. I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't hide behind a bush on it in respect to the times that I did lose my temper. But you know the quality that I had when I lost my temper, I never, ever brought it back again.
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#55. Origins should never be a barrier to success. A modest start in life can be a help more than a hindrance.
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#56. As long as you don't criticise individual players in public, admonishing the team is fine, not a problem. We can all share in the blame: the manager, his staff, the players. Expressed properly, criticism can be an acceptance of collective responsibility. Under
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#57. Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.
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#58. Inexperienced, or insecure, leaders are often tempted to make any infraction a capital offence.
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#59. They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.
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#60. The lads really ran their socks into the ground.
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#61. Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.
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#62. If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.
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#63. If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.
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#64. Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.
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#65. We once went 13 games without winning. There's always pressure here. Winning is always important here. How do you handle yourself and compose yourself is important.
(on Manchester United)
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#66. I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.
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#67. A leader who arrives in a new setting, or inherits a big role, needs to curb the impulse to display his manhood.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
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#72. Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.
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#73. As long as there are games to play its not over
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#74. He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.
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#75. They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.
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#76. Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
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#77. Part of the pursuit of excellence involves eliminating as many surprises as possible because life is full of the unexpected.
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#78. David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.
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#79. They had Jan Venegoor of ... whatever you call him.
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#80. We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.
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#81. One mark of a leader is his willingness to share information.
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#82. 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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#83. I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.
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#84. I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.
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#85. It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.
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#87. To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize ... he's that type of person.
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#88. Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.
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#89. I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was.
(on Manchester City)
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#90. you learn more from defeats than you do from victories
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#91. 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 languages!
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#92. He's such a great threat because of his power and pace.
(on Cristiano Ronaldo)
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#93. Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.
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#94. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
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#95. 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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#96. David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals.
(on David Beckham)
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#97. The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.
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#98. Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.
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#99. There's a lot of satisfaction that comes from knowing you're doing your best, and there's even more that comes when it begins to pay off. I
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#100. He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
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