Alex Quotes

• My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

  Alex Haley

  Men, Roots, Yellow

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• I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

  Alex Haley

  Children, Book, Successful

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• Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Slippers, Everest

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Player, Used

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• 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.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Football, Player

  "David Beckham exits as gracefully as one of his arcing crosses" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2013.

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• In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

  Alex Haley

  Writing, Black History, Praise

  "A Kwanzaa Celebration" by Angela Shelf Medearis, (p. 154), 1995.

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

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Funny, Football

  " Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Challenges, Moments

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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

  Alex Ferguson

  Funny, Football, Italian

  Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Soccer, Sports

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

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Soccer, Football

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

  Alex Ferguson

  Sports, Football, Believe

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

  Alex Haley

  Family, Talking, Earth

  "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in TIME magazine, February 14, 1977.

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• I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Wind, Pieces

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

  Alex Haley

  Inspirational, Family, Meaningful

  "Traits of a Healthy Family" by Dolores Curran, (p. 199), 1985.

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• Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

  Alex Haley

  Life, Children, Grandmother

  Reader's Digest, 1987.

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• 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!

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Intelligent, Boys

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

  Alex Haley

  Funny, Animal, Turtles

  "A Touch of Class" by Carol Vanderheyden, (p. 60), 2003.

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• There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Three, Evening

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Sir Alex, one of the best managers of all time. After 26 years of success in the game, we all owe him a tribute.

  Vincent Kompany

  Years, Games, Tribute

  Twitter post from May 08, 2013

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• What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

  Anthony Horowitz

  Hogwarts, Riders, Alex Rider

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• I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." -Alex

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Children, Heart

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• Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Mexican, Crooks, Pieces

  Anthony Horowitz (2004). “Skeleton Key”, p.89, Penguin

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• The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Football, Moving, Years

  "Howard Wilkinson's LMA survey reveals depth of managers' dedication" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• [Alex] Haley felt he could make a solid case in favor of racial integration by showing what was - to white America - what was the consequence of their support for racial separatism that would end up producing a kind of hate, the hate that hate produced, to use the phrase that Mike Wallace used in his 1959 documentary on the Nation of Islam.

  Manning Marable

  Hate, White, America

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