People Quote by 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

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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 was never, ever physically afraid. My terms of reference were basic and simple: put the ball in the net. That was my job,…

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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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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…

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You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

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

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“I train every time I open my mouth”

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

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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…

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

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They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

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The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under…

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