Brian Clough Quotes

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

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

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.

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

The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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'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.

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.

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.

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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