Brian Clough
Brian Clough
Brian Howard Clough, OBEwas an English football player and manager...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth21 March 1935
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.
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.
sports team games
We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.
soccer should wells
If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
genius leicester jumpers
Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.
soccer winning player
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
mud feminine covered
I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
soccer football jobs
If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.
funny football sky
If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.
cat player giving
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.
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.