Brian Clough Quotes

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

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

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

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

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

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

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

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

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

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

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

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 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.

Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

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

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