Brian Clough Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.”
-- Brian Clough

#Soccer #Imperfection
“We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.”
-- Brian Clough

#Sports #Team #Games
“If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.”
-- Brian Clough

#Soccer #Should #Wells
“I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.”
-- Brian Clough

#Mud #Feminine #Covered
“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

#Soccer #Winning #Player
“If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.”
-- Brian Clough

#Funny #Football #Sky
“When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.”
-- Brian Clough

#Soccer #Giving Up #Favourite
“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

#Italian #Mind #Balls
“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

#Cat #Player #Giving
“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

#Home #Night #Wife
“Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.”
-- Brian Clough

#Holiday #Shoes #Boots
“When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.”
-- Brian Clough

#Soccer #Age #Coming Back
“For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!”
-- Brian Clough

#Soccer #Horse #Mean
“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

#Soccer #Profound #Want
“They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.”
-- Brian Clough

#Inspirational #Motivational #Soccer
“Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.”
-- Brian Clough

#Team #Games #White
“Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.”
-- Brian Clough

#Cutting #Hair #Wife
“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.”
-- Brian Clough

#Soccer #Football #Hard Work
“Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships,”
-- Brian Clough

#League #Coaching #Cups
“Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.”
-- Brian Clough

#Leicester #Genius #Jumpers
“The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.”
-- Brian Clough

#Years #Rivers #Lovely
“Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.”
-- Brian Clough

#Prime #Ministers #Caught
“My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.”
-- Brian Clough

#Wife #Bigs #My Wife
“Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.”
-- Brian Clough

#Soccer #Football #Acne
“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.”
-- Brian Clough

#Soccer #Football #Doe
“If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.”
-- Brian Clough

#Soccer #Football #Jobs
“There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.”
-- Brian Clough

#Football #House
“If any one of my players isnâ€™t interfering with play, theyâ€™re not getting paid.”
-- Brian Clough

#Player #Play #Interfere
“It only takes a second to score a goal.”
-- Brian Clough

#Goal #Score
“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

#Dog #World #Pressure

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