Top 100 Quotes About Alex Ferguson
#1. Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.
Tim Howard
#2. I think he [Sir Alex Ferguson] may have even surpassed the achievements of Matt Busby for Manchester United.
Kenny Dalglish
#3. I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#4. I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson].
Paul Gascoigne
#5. A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.
Roberto Mancini
#6. You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.
Eric Cantona
#7. I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.
Alastair Campbell
#8. I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.
Paul Gascoigne
#9. But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.
Paul Gascoigne
#10. Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.
David Beckham
#11. I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.
Noel Gallagher
#12. Steve Jobs was Apple; Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United,
David Gill
#13. I feel the longer he stays at United the better it is for the club. He's done so much for United you can't imagine him not being here.
(on Sir Alex Ferguson)
Rio Ferdinand
#15. Those who hate or disrespect Sir Alex Ferguson , its only because he snatched away their dreams of winning.
Eric Cantona
#17. I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.
Alex Ferguson
#18. I needed two stitches after Alex kicked the boot at me.
(on Ferguson)
David Beckham
#19. I bet him he wouldn't get 15 league goals and I'm going to have to change my bet with him. If he gets to 15 I can change it and I am allowed to do that because I'm the manager. I'm going to make it 150 now!
Alex Ferguson
#20. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#21. Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success
Alex Ferguson
#22. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#23. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#24. The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.
Alex Ferguson
#25. Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.
Alex Ferguson
#26. Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.
Alex Ferguson
#30. I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
Alex Ferguson
#31. The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.
Alex Ferguson
#32. I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
Alex Ferguson
#34. Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.
Alex Pareene
#35. Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control.
Alex Ferguson
#36. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#38. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#39. He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice.
Alex Ferguson
#40. Players know that they can trust me which is really important. They know that I had the ability to adapt to change, and they have seen that many times over the years. I think these are important parts of being in control of footballers.
Alex Ferguson
#41. Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.
Alex Ferguson
#42. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#43. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#44. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#45. When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration
Alex Ferguson
#46. You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
Alex Ferguson
#47. Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.
Alex Ferguson
#48. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#50. I think he was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous. (On Benitez)
Alex Ferguson
#51. Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes ... you just know.
Alex Ferguson
#52. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#53. Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.
Alex Ferguson
#54. Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.
Alex Ferguson
#55. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#56. I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.
Alex Ferguson
#57. As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.
Alex Ferguson
#58. 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)
Alex Ferguson
#59. If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.
Alex Ferguson
#60. The way to win battles, wars and games is by attacking and overrunning the opposing side.
Alex Ferguson
#61. Onde you bid farewell to discipline you day goodbye to success
Alex Ferguson
#62. Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
Alex Ferguson
#63. 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
Alex Ferguson
#64. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#65. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#66. If you need one person to change your destiny, then you have not built a very solid organisation.
Alex Ferguson
#67. The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.
Alex Ferguson
#68. A housefly has a longer life expectancy than the manager of a Premier League team.
Alex Ferguson
#69. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#70. drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat.
Alex Ferguson
#71. It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt such an honor to be associated with such a player.
Alex Ferguson
#72. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#73. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#74. Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
Alex Ferguson
#76. When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.
Alex Ferguson
#77. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#78. In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.
Alex Ferguson
#79. But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.
Alex Ferguson
#80. Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.
Alex Ferguson
#81. The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
Alex Ferguson
#82. The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.
Alex Ferguson
#83. Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.
Alex Ferguson
#86. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#87. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#88. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#89. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#90. Origins should never be a barrier to success. A modest start in life can be a help more than a hindrance.
Alex Ferguson
#91. 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
Alex Ferguson
#92. Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.
Alex Ferguson
#93. Inexperienced, or insecure, leaders are often tempted to make any infraction a capital offence.
Alex Ferguson
#94. They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.
Alex Ferguson
#95. The lads really ran their socks into the ground.
Alex Ferguson
#96. Ronaldo could play for Millwall, QPR, Doncaster Rovers or anyone and he'd score a hat-trick. I'm not sure Messi could do it. Ronaldo's got two feet, he's quick, he's good in the air and he's brave, though Messi's brave too of course. I just think Messi is a Barcelona player.
Alex Ferguson
#97. Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.
Alex Ferguson
#98. If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.
Alex Ferguson
#99. There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.
Alex Ferguson
#100. The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.
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