Quotes by Brian Clough

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.
– Brian Clough
Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.
– Brian Clough
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
– Brian Clough
Football hooligans - well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.
– Brian Clough
I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might grab mine.
– Brian Clough
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.
– Brian Clough
I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
– Brian Clough
I might be an old codger now and slightly past my best as a gaffer, but the FA would know they're safe with me. At least I'd keep my trousers on.
– 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
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
– Brian Clough
I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.
– Brian Clough
I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.
– Brian Clough
If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
– Brian Clough
If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there.
– Brian Clough
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
– 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
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
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
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
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
– Brian Clough
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
– 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
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
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
– Brian Clough
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
– 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