Alex Ferguson Quotes
Top 98 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alex Ferguson
Alex Ferguson Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Alex Ferguson on Wise Famous Quotes.
When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration
If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.
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.
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.
Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes ... you just know.
I had to lift players' expectations. They should never give in. I said that to them all the time: "If you give in once, you'll give in twice.
Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.
I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.
A leader who arrives in a new setting, or inherits a big role, needs to curb the impulse to display his manhood.
The most important aspect of our system was training. Whatever happens on a Saturday afternoon has already occurred on the training ground.
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.
Origins should never be a barrier to success. A modest start in life can be a help more than a hindrance.
You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.
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.
He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice.
He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of.
(on Cristiano Ronaldo)
(on Cristiano Ronaldo)
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.
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.
The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
Part of the pursuit of excellence involves eliminating as many surprises as possible because life is full of the unexpected.
You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
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!
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.
I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.
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
drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat.
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.
They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.
Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
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.
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.
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
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.