Brian Clough Quotes
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If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.
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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.
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Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
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I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
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I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.
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Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
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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.
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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.
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For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!
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Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.
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I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.
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The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.
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When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
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Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.
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There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.
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It only takes a second to score a goal.
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If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
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If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
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If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.
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If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.
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Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.
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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.
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We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.
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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.
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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.
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I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.
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When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
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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.
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Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.
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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.
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