28 Quotes From Brian Clough
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28 Quotes From Brian Clough
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
— Brian Clough
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
— Brian Clough
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
— Brian Clough
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
— Brian Clough
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
— Brian Clough
I was never, ever physically afraid. My terms of reference were basic and simple: put the ball in the net. That was my job, that's the way I saw it, and I allowed nothing and nobody to distract me from that purpose.
— Brian Clough
Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.
— Brian Clough
My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.
— Brian Clough
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.
— Brian Clough
I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
— Brian Clough
If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
— Brian Clough
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
— Brian Clough
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
— Brian Clough
The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.
— 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.
— Brian Clough
To me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it - every day.
— Brian Clough
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.
— Brian Clough
Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.
— Brian Clough
Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord's.
— Brian Clough
Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.
— Brian Clough
What young men nowadays don't realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.
— Brian Clough
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.
— Brian Clough
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.
— Brian Clough
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
— Brian Clough
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.
— Brian Clough
My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.
— Brian Clough
What joy and adventure the youngsters of today are missing as they sit indoors mucking about with computer games and videos!
— Brian Clough
I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.
— Brian Clough
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