Quote #22

'When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate I check under the sauce to make sure. They are the inventors of the smokescreen.'

More from Alex Ferguson

  1. '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.'
  2. 'Whether dribbling or sprinting, Ryan can leave the best defenders with twisted blood'
  3. 'What the fuck are you lot playing at? That is the biggest load of shite I've ever seen. Not one of you can look me in the eye, because not…
  4. 'Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.'
  5. 'David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless applica…
  6. 'That lad [Filippo Inzaghi] must have been born offiside.'
  7. 'They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!'
  8. 'I think he is the top man in the world for football.'

All Alex Ferguson quotes