Brian Clough Quotes (27 Quotes)

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

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.

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.

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

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

If God wanted us to play football in the air, then he would have built a pitch in the clouds

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

I have no idea what kind of advice my father would have given me, were he still around. More than anything, I wish he could have been present at our press day. Then, everyone would have wanted to talk to him and it might have taken some of the attention away from us.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.

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

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

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

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

No cheating bastards will I talk to I will not talk to any cheating bastards

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

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

We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.

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.

Football hooligans - well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

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

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

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