Alex Ferguson
The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.Collection: Great
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.Collection: Relationship
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.Collection: Sympathy
Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing 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.Collection: Learning
I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.
I've never played for a draw in my life.
I do believe in fate.
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.
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.
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.
You can't applaud a referee.
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.
Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.
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.
I think you have a duty and a responsibility to entertain. We have to always remember that there's a public to be entertained.
The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
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.
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.
As long as there are games to play it is not over.
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.
I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.
Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.
The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.
Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.
Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.Collection: Hard Work
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.Collection: Inspirational
If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.Collection: Motivational
Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.Collection: Winning
Never give in or give up easily on a cause.Collection: Giving Up
Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.Collection: Wisdom
As long as there are games to play its not overCollection: Football
Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.Collection: Kindness
The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.Collection: Inspirational
You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.Collection: Football
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.Collection: Sports
It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.Collection: Inspirational
Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.Collection: Names
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!Collection: Inspirational
When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Inspirational
Ronaldo could play for Millwall, QPR, Doncaster Rovers or anyone and he'd score a hat-trick. I'm not sure Messi could do it. Ronaldo's got two feet, he's quick, he's good in the air and he's brave, though Messi's brave too of course. I just think Messi is a Barcelona player.Collection: Player
We have to try to beat Everyone.Collection: Trying
The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.Collection: Player
That lad must have been born offside.Collection: Inspirational
Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.Collection: Zola
The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.Collection: Winning