Alex Ferguson Quotes

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

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

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

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

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.

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!

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.

You can't applaud a referee.

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

All they can talk about is Manchester United.

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.

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.

Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.

Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.

That lad must have been born offside.

They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.

Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.

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.

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)

Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.

I do believe in fate.

Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.

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

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.

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

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.

Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing 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.

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.

I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.

Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.

The lads really ran their socks into the ground.

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.

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.

If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.