Brian Clough Quotes

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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…
• They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
• 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…
• Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
• I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
• The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
• 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…
• When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
• When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
• I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
• 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…
• If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
• 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…
• Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
• 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…
• Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
• I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.
• If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.
• If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
• The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.

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