Alex Ferguson Quotes

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.

As long as there are games to play it is not over.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad.

I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

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.

There was one or two offers that did come along during my time at United, but I always came back to this point; why would you leave United? Where is the bigger challenge? And the thing about challenges is, once you have won something, you can't live on that. Not at Manchester United - you have got to win the next one. And that's the challenge. Maintaining that consistency of winning which is a mentality that I have had.

You can't applaud a referee.

The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.

He could start a row in an empty house.

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 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.

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.

It's a conflict of parallels.

I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.

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.

Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.

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.

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England.

He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.

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.

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.

At the last minute, from what I can gather, either Emmanuel Adebayor or his agent phoned us after they had agreed a deal with City and then did the same with Chelsea. He was desperate to get to either Chelsea or us.

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.

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.

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.

I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient.

The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.

You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.

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.

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.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again.

If I could, I would have carried on playing.

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.

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.

I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.

That lad must have been born offside.

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.

Sometimes you're not sure about a player.

Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.

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.

Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.

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.

Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire.

But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.

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.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.

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.

When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration

Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

The lads really ran their socks into the ground.