Brian Clough
Brian Clough
Brian Howard Clough, OBEwas an English football player and manager...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth21 March 1935
soccer giving-up favourite
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
sunday night yorkshire
You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.
soccer thinking people
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.
player twenties argument
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
soccer horse mean
For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!
holiday shoes boots
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
soccer age certain
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
hate hate-me they-hate-me
They love me for what I'm not They hate me for what I am.
italian mind balls
I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.
goal score
It only takes a second to score a goal.
soccer should wells
If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
english last manager speaks
At last they've got a manager who speaks better English than they do
advice attention father given might present press taken talk wish
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.
soccer football imperfection
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.