Ferguson Quotes

• I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Alex

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• Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Funny, Soccer

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• But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Men, Play, Alex

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Alex

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

  David Gill

  Jobs, Apples, Alex

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• He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it was but it was crap. He played it on the team bus too, and all the boys hated it. Until one night it got chucked away. If he's still wondering who threw that tape off the bus, it was me. So maybe he was right and I'm not to be trusted.

  Gordon Strachan

  Team, Boys, Night

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• I've had a dozen people tell me, maybe more, 'What would have happened if Michael Brown had shot and killed Darren Wilson? Do you think he would be free right now? Do you think he would not have been charged by now?' People just see this manifest double-standard in front of them that's coming at the long line of a whole bunch of grievances that have built up over time because of the dynamics of Ferguson and frankly, the dynamics of race in America more broadly.

  Chris Hayes

  Thinking, America, Race

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• It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a big sign and it said, "Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog." The all-night drugstore closed at noon.

  Jackie Vernon

  Funny, Dog, Night

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• One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Nature, Waiting

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• Who is the muppet coaching Chelsea??? AVB??? Hmmm!! 25yrs for Ferguson, hopefully not even 6 months for this AVB geezer!

  Kevin Pietersen

  Football, Hopefully Not, Coaching

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• When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use of force against African-American citizens, it's hard to try to rationalize how this cesspool of racism doesn't spill over onto the individual officers.

  Benjamin Crump

  Talking, Justice, Racism

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation with Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, mobile.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.

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• We think of Shots Fired as almost an autopsy of Ferguson that shows the events from every street in the house. And, in dealing with these two murders of a black victim and a white victim, we show the ways that communities and the media deal with victims differently based on race.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Thinking, Two, White

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look at some of these issues after Ferguson.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Philadelphia, Issues, Police

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I have asked James Shabazz, I've asked other people who are members of the OAAU, Herman Ferguson and others, what led to that disastrous decision [that the guards didn't carry weapons]? James Shabazz said to me with a shrug, you just didn't know Malcolm. Malcolm was adamant, and that whatever Malcolm wanted, that's what we just did.

  Manning Marable

  People, Decision, Weapons

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

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• I just keep thinking of how many times I`ve heard Ferguson effect. And I`ve heard it because of protests, officers are afraid to do their job because of - because of a YouTube effect.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Jobs, Thinking, Youtube

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.

  David Maraniss

  Summer, Fall, Race

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• How long has it taken the democratic process to develop in the United States? Since it was founded. So, do you think that as regards democracy everything is settled now in America? If this were so, there would be no Ferguson issue, right? There would be no other issues of similar kind, there would be no police abuse. Our goal is to see all these issues and respond to them timely and properly. The same applies to Russia. We also have a lot of problems.

  Vladimir Putin

  Taken, Thinking, Russia

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out". www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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• But when you look - and Chicago's not the only - you go to Ferguson, you go to so many different places. You need better relationships. I agree with Secretary [Hillary] Clinton on this.

  Donald Trump

  Chicago, Different, Needs

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.

  Alastair Campbell

  Football, Player, Next Day

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.

  Barack Obama

  Cities, Names, Community

  Remarks by the President in Town Hall at Benedict College, Columbia, SC, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 06, 2015.

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• It's certainly an interesting moment to try to talk about, 'cause you could make a great show about the police force right now, with all that's happening in the news and Ferguson and all of it.

  Ethan Hawke

  Interesting, Police, Trying

  "Ethan Hawke talks 'Regression'". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, Interesting, Tasks

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I think he [Sir Alex Ferguson] may have even surpassed the achievements of Matt Busby for Manchester United.

  Kenny Dalglish

  Thinking, Achievement, Alex

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• I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Sir Alex Ferguson ceases to amaze me as a manager

  Tony Cascarino

  Alex, Managers, Cease

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