Alex Ferguson Quotes about Football

I've never played for a draw in my life.

As long as there are games to play its not over

You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

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

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.

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

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

I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I do like to try and see myself in football players. Everybody is different and express themselves in different ways. There are different kinds of talents of course and there are many who I would never have had the talent that they have when I was a player. But I still had that determination to be successful and try my best.

You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.

I think Sepp Blatter is in danger...or has reached a point now, where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he's getting too old, I don't know. But things can happen to people in power. Look at some of the despots in Africa... From a position of great power, he has uttered so many ridiculous statements that he is in danger of seriously damaging his credibility.

It's a conflict of parallels.

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.

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

If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.

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.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

The lads really ran their socks into the ground.