Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In

563 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,040 -Hold it. -[man] Don't move. 564 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,440 Feel the back of your legs. 565 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:41,480 Hold it for a wee bit. 566 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,840 Obviously, I've got my own ideas and standards. 567 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,360 And through time, this'll come through to the players. 568 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:49,720 Fingers crossed. 569 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,040 [man] When he first got there... 570 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,880 Well, we're at the level where Aberdeen had been for years. 571 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:05,280 Where you-- The fans are quite happy if you won a trophy every six years. 572 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,320 And that trophy was either the League Cup or the F.A. Cup. 573 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:09,960 That was success. 574 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:12,880 We were a group of guys, 575 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,400 play football just to make a living. 576 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,240 [Alex] But the problem was, 577 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,440 a lot of those players couldn't dream of winning a league. 578 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:25,920 And incredible as it may seem, 579 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,280 we didn't have a training ground at Aberdeen. 580 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,640 Facilities? There's a park along from us 581 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,920 [boys chattering] 582 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,560 [Gordon] That wasn't that great because you had to 583 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,320 kick off the dog crap, uh, 584 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:39,760 before you started training. 585 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,840 Yeah, the car park was used mainly in the afternoons. 586 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,120 We used to go to the beach. 587 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,160 And we'd only stop when the actual tide hit a goalpost. 588 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,720 -[chuckles] -[chattering] 589 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:01,080 But the only thing that mattered was beating Rangers and Celtic. 590 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,720 If you don't beat Rangers and Celtic, you don't win the league. 591 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,120 Simple as that. 592 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,760 [Gordon] I remember, he was desperate. 593 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,960 I mean, desperate to beat the two sides, the Old Firm sides. 594 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,760 Rangers, I felt in particular more than Celtic. 595 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,600 For some reason, I don't know what it was. 596 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:24,560 But Rangers was the first target. 597 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,560 [Alex] The first time we played at Rangers... 598 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:37,240 and we scrambled a draw in the last minute. 599 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,320 After the game, the players were all celebrating, jumping up and down. 600 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,120 And I'm, what, I'm saying, "Wait a minute". 601 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:50,000 I says, "What are you celebrating? I mean... you've only drawn." 602 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,200 And we'd all had kind of... rollockings or bollockings, 603 00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:55,320 whatever you want to call it, before at different clubs. 604 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,160 But this was an intensity 605 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:01,120 that was not about just that game or something. 606 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,560 It was... everything. 607 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,040 Where you want to go, what you want to do with your life. 608 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,120 Forget all the work we'd been doing, 609 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,760 with passing the ball and technical ability, etcetera, etcetera. 610 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,840 If they're not winners, it's a waste of time anyway. 611 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,400 You're trying to get that character 612 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,040 instilled in the human beings you're dealing with. 613 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,840 When they go on that pitch, they can't leave 614 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,800 their personality in the dressing room. 615 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,800 When I looked at that, I thought there's-there's 616 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,560 something up here. 617 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,320 Somehow there's something inside this fellow... 618 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,280 that's making him angry and driving him. 619 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,160 Well, looking back on it now, 620 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,480 it looks like I bumped into a-a wounded animal here. 621 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:02,920 Look, rather than explain 622 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:07,120 how you can bring-bring a winning mentality to people, 623 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,520 I think you've got to produce a project that's working. 624 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,640 [Gordon] Technique, mentally, physically, the whole lot. 625 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,080 -[player grunts] -He put people under so much pressure 626 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,040 to be successful. 627 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,560 [Alex] You have to earn the right 628 00:40:22,60