Alex Ferguson

Football manager

1941-12-31

Quotes by Alex Ferguson

• 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.

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• Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

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• The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

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