Brian Clough Quotes


Brian Clough

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.

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.

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

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

Don`t send me flowers when I`m dead. If you like me, send them while I`m alive.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Beckham? His wife can`t sing and his barber can`t cut hair.

They say Rome wasn`t built in a day, but I wasn`t on that particular job.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven`t had fourteen pairs in my life.

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

I wouldn`t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

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

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






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