Brian Clough Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.

If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.

I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

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.

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

My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

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

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

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!

I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.

They love me for what I'm not They hate me for what I am.

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.

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.

It only takes a second to score a goal.

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

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.

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

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

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

At last they've got a manager who speaks better English than they do

I have no idea what kind of advice my father would have given me, were he still around. More than anything, I wish he could have been present at our press day. Then, everyone would have wanted to talk to him and it might have taken some of the attention away from us.

If God wanted us to play football in the air, then he would have built a pitch in the clouds