Brian Clough Quotes

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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!

  Brian Clough

  Player, Twenties, Argument

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

  Brian Clough

  Sports, Team, Games

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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, Football, Imperfection

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Brian Clough

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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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.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Winning, Player

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Brian Clough

  Player, Play, Interfere

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

  Brian Clough

  League, Coaching, Cups

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

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Should, Wells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Cutting, Hair

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

  Brian Clough

  Funny, Football, Sky

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• 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

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

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Giving Up, Favourite

  "Genius declared: Wilde tops the wit list" by Aidan Jones, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.

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

  Brian Clough

  Years, Rivers, Lovely

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

  Brian Clough

  Football, House, House Of Commons

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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 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

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

  Brian Clough

  Hate, Hate Me, They Hate Me

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• 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

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• 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

  Taken, Walking Away, Should Have

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• It only takes a second to score a goal.

  Brian Clough

  Goal, Score

  "Boro unworthy of the green jersey" by Jeremy Alexander, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2004.

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

  Brian Clough

  Leicester, Genius, Jumpers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Brian Clough

  Mud, Feminine, Covered

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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

  Brian Clough

  Prime, Ministers, Caught

  Quoted in Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (2003).

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• 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

  Soccer, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Soccer, Italian, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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