Source: Telegraph
Sir Alex Ferguson: famous quotes and greatest rants
On Mark Hughes: It can be difficult to pinpoint who would make it as a manager. For instance, nobody here thought Mark Hughes would become a manager, never in a million years, and we all thought Bryan Robson was a certainty to be a top manager. [LNB]On referee Alan Wiley: The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit. He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous. [LNB]On Jose Mourinho: He was certainly full of it, calling me boss and big man when we had our post-match drink after the first leg. But it would help if his greetings were accompanied by a decent glass of wine. What he gave me was paint-stripper. [LNB]On Rafael Benitez and his 'facts': I think he was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous [LNB]On whether Liverpool could end almost 20-year wait for top flight glory in 2007 You must be joking. Do I look as if I'm a masochist ready to cut myself? How does relegation sound instead? [LNB]On winning the Champions League in 1999: I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell. [LNB]On Alan Hansen questioning his future in 2002: My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f****** perch. And you can print that. [LNB]On the 2002/03 end of season title race: It's getting tickly now - squeaky-bum time, I call it. [LNB]On Paul Ince I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like. [LNB]On Ryan Giggs I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cocker spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind [LNB]On Gary Neville: If he was an inch taller he'd be the best centre half in Britain. His father is 6ft 2in - I'd check the milkman. [LNB]On the Old Trafford faithful: The crowd were dead. It was like a funeral out there. [LNB][LNB][LNB]
