David Gill Quotes

• Steve Jobs was Apple; Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United.

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  Jobs, Apples, Alex

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• What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

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  Mistake, Grief, Reality

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• Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

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  Years, Looks, Next Year

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• There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

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  Lessons To Be Learned, Lessons, Learning Lessons

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• The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

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  Football, Jobs, Congratulations

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• Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

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  Dream, Long, People

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• Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached.

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  People, Drug, Situation

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• All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

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  Perspective, Different, May

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• The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

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  Expansion, Feasibility, Stage

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• Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

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  Player, People, Mercenary

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• Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

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  Teamwork, Eight, Years

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• The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

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  Retirement, Issues, Rolling

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• We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.

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  Retirement, Squad, One Day

  “Sir Alex Ferguson retires as Manchester United manager after 27 years” by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2013.

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