Explore Quotes by Alex Ferguson

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.

Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing 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.

Look at me – it's taken 10 years off me today. It's these tablets, they're great!

They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.

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.

Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.

I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

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.

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.

All they can talk about is Manchester United.

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.

Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.

Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.

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

It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.

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.

The lads really ran their socks into the ground.

As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.

As long as there are games to play its not over

It's a conflict of parallels.

Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.