Brian Clough Quotes

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

They love me for what I'm not They hate me for what I am.

Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships.

For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.

It only takes a second to score a goal.

Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.

The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.

My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.

If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.