Alex Ferguson Quotes

“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

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• Players
• Give in

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• Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Better
  • Expectations
  • Flow

• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Good
  • Mad
  • Players

• But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • High
  • Yourself
  • Expectations

• When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Me
  • Expectations

• I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Girl
  • Expectations

• Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Quality
  • Expectations

• We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Expectations

• In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Fear
  • Football
  • Expectations

• It's always about 'what have you done for me lately.' As players we see what is going on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Always
  • See
  • Players

• I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Expectations

• The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Woman

• The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Mind
  • You
  • Expectations

• For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The 'Magician of Riga' rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.

  Garry Kasparov
  • World
  • Age
  • Inspiration

• I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • City
  • Reason
  • Players

• Obviously, we're very happy to have Tony with us for the foreseeable future, ... Along with Home Depot, he's been an important part of our organization for a number of years, and we're thankful that's going to continue.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Important
  • Home
  • Happy

• I'm just happy for him that he is playing well, ... A lot of times up here you go through tough things. At any one time in the NFL, you're going to have a number of players on a team who are going through tough situations. A lot of times the way they handle it is a measure of someone's character. I think that was Mark's situation last year and Patrick's situation now. The way you go through the tough times leads you to improvement and great performance in the future. It's a test of character when you go through that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• If I'm somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don't do it -- I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Important
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time reduction, cost cutting, exceeding customer expectations, streamlining processes, shortening time to market for new products, and managing the global operation.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.

  

  Allison Silverman
  • Players
  • Improv
  • Yale

• There are no world-class players here, not at the moment, but we will in four years.

  

  Eddie Jones
  • Players
  • World-class

• Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Drug
  • Expectations

• Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Remember
  • Adieu

• No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Children
  • Love
  • Man

• “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