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The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.
If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.
Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.
The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.
I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
Jose [Mourinho] was one of those guys on a surfboard who can stay longer on the wave than anyone else.
He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)
Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.
The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.
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 start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.
It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.
Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.
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.
He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice.
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.
Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.
If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.
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.
Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.
You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.
Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.
Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.
I think you have a duty and a responsibility to entertain. We have to always remember that there's a public to be entertained.
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One of the things I always thought about as a young coach was finding solutions to things that happened, but the most important thing I always referred to was never giving in.
Human beings of today are more fragile, whereas people born in wartime, during the Second World War, eventually became the great players like Pele. They were fantastic players.
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.
David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)
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.
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.
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.
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.