{"id":235947,"date":"2025-10-31T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235947\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:12:10","slug":"wayne-rooney-shares-sir-alex-ferguson-advice-that-has-stuck-with-him-to-this-day-he-said-it-a-few-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235947\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney shares Sir Alex Ferguson advice that has stuck with him to this day, ‘he said it a few times…’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wayne Rooney has dropped an eye-opening insight into the invaluable lesson that he learned during his prolific time under Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old Manchester United legend<\/a> burst onto the scene at boyhood club Everton under David Moyes<\/a> and he immediately caught the eye of Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wayne Rooney<\/a> was only 18 years old when he left Goodison Park and completed a sensational move to Old Trafford<\/a> to play under the legendary ex-United manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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United<\/a> signed the former Everton striker in a deal worth \u00a327m in 2004, with the Red Devils agreeing to an initial fee of \u00a320m for Rooney\u2019s blockbuster transfer.<\/p>\n

Rooney entered the history books at Old Trafford after an illustrious playing spell, which saw him shatter Sir Bobby Charlton\u2019s all-time record goalscoring feat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

United\u2019s current all-time record scorer<\/a> is widely considered one of the best strikers in Premier League history and Rooney enjoyed incredible success with the Red Devils.<\/p>\n

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\"PremierPhoto by AMA\/Corbis via Getty ImagesWayne Rooney on what former Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson told him at Old Trafford<\/p>\n

Wayne Rooney\u2019s legendary Manchester United spell<\/a> saw him lift five Premier League titles, a Champions League, a Europa League, an FA Cup and three League Cups.<\/p>\n

The England legend was a key striker for Sir Alex Ferguson during the late stages of the iconic former United manager\u2019s remarkable 26-year spell at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

Rooney carried on his career at the Red Devils after Ferguson\u2019s retirement as United head coach<\/a> in 2013 and was once a longstanding influential player at the club.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his BBC Sport-hosted show, the former United captain<\/a> cannot overlook the all-important words that were echoed to him by Red Devils icon Ferguson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always remember the one line he said, one thing he said \u2014 and he said it a few times \u2014 is, \u2018The hardest thing to do in life is work hard,\u2019 and that stuck with me,\u201d he said on The Wayne Rooney Show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think, \u2018Great,\u2019 whatever job you\u2019re doing and that can apply to anything really.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rooney would later become United captain in his Old Trafford spell after he ascended to the role under former Red Devils head coach Louis van Gaal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former United striker played under David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho<\/a> in the post-Ferguson era before he made his exit from the Red Devils.<\/p>\n

Rooney has now admitted that he can see an incredible meaning behind Ferguson\u2019s powerful words when he puts it into the context of football as a player.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I think in football we have talent, we have ability and\u2026 but sometimes we don\u2019t look at working hard every day and you\u2019d think that\u2019s normal,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should do that if you play for a big club, but some players, actually, you\u2019ve seen them, they don\u2019t and so that was the one thing which stuck with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rooney, who retired from football as a player in 2021, left Old Trafford in 2017 after his remarkable spell and returned to boyhood club Everton for a brief second run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney has dropped an eye-opening insight into the invaluable lesson that he learned during his prolific time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,14471,101,56,54,55,28552],"class_list":["post-235947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sir-alex-ferguson","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wayne-rooney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}