Brian Clough Quotes

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

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• My wife says OBE stands for Old Big ’Ead.

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• Say nowt, win it, then—talk your head off.

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• Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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Birth:	21st March, 1935
Death:	20th September, 2004
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Football Player, Manager

About

Brian Clough was born in Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. He was an English footballer and football manager. As a player Clough was a prolific goalscorer with Middlesbrough and Sunderland, scoring 251 league goals from 274 starts. He also won two England caps, both in 1959. Clough retired from playing at the age of 29, after sustaining anterior cruciate ligament damage. He remains one of the Football League's highest goalscorers. In 1965, Clough took the manager's job at Fourth Division Hartlepool United and appointed Peter Taylor as his assistant, the start of an enduring partnership that would bring them success at numerous clubs over the next two decades.

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