Alex Ferguson Quotes

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.

Alex Ferguson

“You cannot lead by following.”

Alex Ferguson

• Lead
• Following

Football, bloody hell!

Alex Ferguson

• Football

That's one of the most stupid questions I've heard. I'll go with Mascherano.

Alex Ferguson

• Stupid

“The experience of defeat, or more particularly the manner in which a leader reacts to it, is an essential part of what makes a winner.”

Alex Ferguson

• Experience
• Defeat
• Winner

Sometimes we can get too emotional as a club with things that are happening but we are both of a common denominator; we don't want the club to be in anyone else's hands. That is the way that the club stands with that. I support that.

Alex Ferguson

• Support
• Emotional

My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that.

Alex Ferguson

• Challenge

“I had to lift players' expectations. They should never give in. I said that to them all the time: "If you give in once, you'll give in twice.”

Alex Ferguson

• Expectations
• Players
• Give in

“In the long run principles are just more important than expediency.”

Alex Ferguson

• Important
• Principles
• Expediency

“Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success”

Alex Ferguson

• Success
• Discipline
• Goodbye