Alex Ferguson

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

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.

David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.

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.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

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.

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.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.

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 you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

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.

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.

Jose [Mourinho] was one of those guys on a surfboard who can stay longer on the wave than anyone else.

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.