Alex Ferguson Quotes About Football
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They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.
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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 far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.
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I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
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I do like to try and see myself in football players. Everybody is different and express themselves in different ways. There are different kinds of talents of course and there are many who I would never have had the talent that they have when I was a player. But I still had that determination to be successful and try my best.
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I've never played for a draw in my life.
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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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It's a conflict of parallels.
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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 getting too old, I don't know. But things can happen to people in power. Look at some of the despots in Africa... From a position of great power, he has uttered so many ridiculous statements that he is in danger of seriously damaging his credibility.
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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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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
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As long as there are games to play its not over
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Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
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David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.
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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 off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.
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The lads really ran their socks into the ground.
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Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.
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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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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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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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You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.
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As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.
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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 relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.
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That lad must have been born offside.
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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 5-1 to Manchester City.
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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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He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
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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 6-1.
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I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.
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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 as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.
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Football, bloody hell!
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