Alex Ferguson Quotes About Manchester United

Quotes about: Manchester United

• 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.

  Alex Ferguson

  Years, Trophies, Manchester United

• I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Funny, Football

  " Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

• If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Player, Asking

  "Eric Cantona: 20 years on from the phone call that changed football" by Rob Smyth, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2012.

• 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.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Challenges, Alex

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

• If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Home, Cat

• I think Rafael Benítez was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Cutting, Men

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

• 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.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Player, Wenger

• He could start a row in an empty house.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, House, Empty

• 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.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Weekend, Winning

• They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.

  Alex Ferguson

  Hatred, Manchester United, Presses

  "Fergie fumes at 'hateful press", www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2005.

• 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.

  Alex Ferguson

  Powerful, Player, Clubs

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

• 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.

  Alex Ferguson

  Winning, Two, Consistency

  RedNews interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 2, 2013.

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

  Alex Ferguson

  Winning, Years, League

  "Read the Fergie interview transcript... on holding grudges, listening to American Civil War tapes on the way to work, handling Man United's millionaires and why he thinks Pele is THE all-time No 1". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 2, 2013.

• 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.

  Alex Ferguson

  Years, Trying, Standards

  "What Can One Learn About Management From Sir Alex Ferguson?" by Shivram Subramanian, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

• All they can talk about is Manchester United.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Manchester United, United

  "Sir Alex Ferguson refuses to accept 'small club' Manchester City as a threat". Interview with Tim Rich, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2009.

• 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)

  Alex Ferguson

  Winning, Games, Scotland

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