Brian Clough Quotes


"Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Wife, Hair)

"When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair."
- Brian Clough
(Related: God)

"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Women)

"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
(Related: Time, Goal, Hair, Man)

"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
(Related: History, Hope, Epitaphs, Want)

"When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Age)

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Flowers)

"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
(Related: Home, Wife, Day, Film, Night)

"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
(Related: People, Drinks, Right, Saying, Walking, Water, Will)

"The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Years)

"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
(Related: Manager, Pressure, World)

"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
(Related: People, Games)

"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
(Related: People)

"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Manager)

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Business, Manager)

"I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Time, Years)

"They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Day, Job, Rome)