Sir Alex Ferguson's advices... read and remember!

“I say to my players, ‘What is the hardest thing to achieve in life?’ ” Ferguson said. “I think one of the hardest things you can do is to work hard all your life. I don’t think that’s easy. I say to them, ‘Look at me: have I changed? Am I still as hungry as I was ten years ago when you first came to me as young kids?’ The answer is yes. So if I don’t change, does that not tell you something that is nice? Which is that working hard is actually good for you.

“I hear that people want to retire at 50 or 55 and I can’t believe that. What are they going to do with their lives? Sit in the house and read the bloody papers or twiddle their thumbs when there’s a world out there that you should be working for?

“It’s great to get up early. I’m up early every morning and I’ve got a whole day to enjoy. I try to get it across to my players that working hard is a quality. People think it’s an easy thing to be able to say, ‘He works hard, right enough; he’s enthusiastic, right enough’, but it’s not. It’s bloody hard to be that way all the time.